Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to take the car. I don't need it and I believe in setting an example in Government economy. It doesn't take an auto to make an office dignified. Mrs. Garner and I walk from our hotel to Peace Monument every day the weather permits. There we usually take one of those 20? taxicabs for the ride up Capitol Hill. A car costs about $5,000 a year- $3,000 for the machine and $2,000 for a driver to sit in it all day. I don't want anybody sitting around all day waiting...
...swearing, an expensive ocean carry, a perilous rail trip, Dr. Chiera got his bull to Chicago. He kept it out on a football field under tarpaulins until the new building was ready. Now, until Chicago decays and disappears and future diggers wonder if Sargon's Bull is a monument to the prehistoric Chicago stockyards, it will stand as a most tangible piece of archaeological evidence, an irrefutable argument for digging into humanity's past...
Doctor Theobald Smith, one of the country's great pathologists and bacteriologists, last week ate a dinner in his own monument: a house overlooking Princeton University campus and Carnegie Lake. Professor Smith lived in the house with his family during the 15 years (1915-29) he was director of the Rockefeller Institute's department of animal pathology. He has retired now and remains in the neighborhood only as consultant. The Rockefeller Institute providently remodeled the house for use of its entire animal pathology staff and last week's dinner signified the transformation of home to monument...
...such an unblushing tearjerker, he laid on pathos with a steam-shovel. Big, ugly, shambling Beery did likewise and little Cooper, whose salary for such undertakings is $1,500 a week, gave a thoroughgoing performance in the same key. Utterly false and thoroughly convincing, The Champ is a monument to the cinema's skill in achieving second-rate perfection. Good shots: Beery dressing when he has a horrible hangover; Cooper listening while his nice little half-sister tells him a fairy story about a Princess who slept for 1,000 years...
...planned and laid out Central Park in New York, a project which led to the establishment of numerous others all over the country. More interesting than this, though, is the story of the Roeblings, father and son, and their long struggle to erect the Brooklyn Bridge, the one great monument of the Brown Decades...