Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer. Dillon? Irish, arrogant, with a musically vibrating voice and a changeable grey eye?was the town's biggest banker. Trueman, solid and more of a sport, was a cattleman. Their friendship was impressive, impervious to differences in their characters. It had become as substantial as a monument before it ended, in a breath of anger over politics, the year Bryan first ran for President...
...sagging spirit of the underfed B. E. F. appeared during its second parade. Early last week in the shuffling silent line of march from the Washington Monument to the Capitol were 4,701 men, 13 women, 17 children-about one half of the police census of the B. E. F. A drum and two bugles furnished all the music. General Glassford on a motorcycle circulated among the marchers, took the friendly salutes of leaders. Parades, he reasoned, do no harm, use up animal spirits. At the Capitol ranks were broken and the Veterans sprawled about to listen to political speeches...
...Edward, u, and Captain Robert Abram ("Bob") Bartlett, 56, sailed from Staten Island for Cape York, Greenland. Also aboard were a cow (named Dilwyn Beatrice) and two pigs for Captain Bob's mother at Brigus, Newfoundland. At Cape York the boys will help erect a 60-ft. limestone monument near where their mother was born in 1893, the world's most northerly born white child...
...financed by R. F. C. and those not so aided. Secretary Mills mocked the Wagner direct relief plan thus: "When you're going to bust the Depression with a $300,000,000 appropriation it's like getting a ten-year old boy to lift up the Washington Monument and bring it here into this room...
...daughter, Mrs. Marie Ahnighito ("Snow Baby") Stafford, who was born "farther north than any other white person," and Mrs. Stafford's two sons are going sailing with Capt. Robert Abram ("Bob") Bartlett to Cape York on the Baffin Bay side of Greenland and there watch the construction of a monument to Peary...