Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first successful agreement to limit armaments on a world scale is the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, an historic monument to Charles Evans Hughes. Last week the Japanese Government, as all the world had long expected it to do, filed its denunciation of that pact. Two years hence, on Dec. 31, 1936, the Washington Naval Treaty and its supplementary London Naval Treaty go into limbo...
...Another monument to Il Duce on which Italians had their eyes last week was the so-called Lira Monument in the little town of Pesaro. There, eight years ago, when statesmen of the world were unanimously convinced that the gold standard is the only honest monetary standard and must be defended as such, Benito Mussolini uttered the words now cut deep into the marble slab of Pesaro's monument: I SAY TO THE WHOLE CIVILIZED WORLD THAT WE WILL DEFEND THE LIRA TO THE LAST BREATH, TO THE LAST DROP OF BLOOD...
...answered." A week before his death, in a little shack in Palo Alto, he penciled a typical testament: "It is ... my wish . . . that my ashes be thrown loose into the sea, or into some sizable stream running to the sea; that no tombstone, slab, epitaph, effigy, tablet, inscription, or monument of any name or nature, be set up in my memory or name in any place or at any time; that no obituary, memorial, portrait or biography of me, nor any letters written to or by me be printed or published, or in any way reproduced, copied or circulated...
...time honoured division into Comedies. Histories, and Tragedies, dating from the First Folio and since universally adopted has been abandoned." they say, "in the belief that there were room and need for an edition that should enable readers to approach the body of the plays not as a state monument of achievement but as a vital and growing organism revealing the evolution of the poet's personality and genius...
...chair in the forest and dozens of other Dali works went on view last week at the Julien Levy Gallery. Among them : Monument to Woman and Child, a great grey whorl that might be wood or weathered rock, in which can be seen ogling men's faces, clutching hands, Napoleon, the Mona Lisa, a pair of buttocks; The Spectre of Sex Appeal, with a little child in a blue sailor suit by a rocky seashore gazing at a gigantic diseased figure propped up by forked sticks...