Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Auguste Champetier de Ribes, French Minister of Pensions, spent an exciting hour at Verdun last week. Charges had been made that although millions of francs are being spent on the new monument at Fort Douaumont heroic Verdun dead are not yet properly buried. Pausing only to invite reporters to accompany him, M. Champetier de Ribes took train from Paris to quash this rumor. At Verdun he discovered that not only are thousands "improperly buried," but at least 12,500 are not buried...
Intellectually the new building is a monument to the efforts and foresight of two people: to Russian Nikolai Sokoloff, only conductor the Orchestra has had, who at last week's dignified housewarming gave a particularly eloquent reading of Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler's Evocation, composed specially for the occasion; and to Adella Prentiss Hughes, the Orchestra's enterprising manager, out of respect for whom John Davison Rockefeller Jr., a one-time Clevelander, gave $250,000. Financially the rest of the credit goes to Dudley Stuart Blossom, tireless campaigner who with his wife gave some...
...refreshing mode has been chosen by the University of Florida, a Gainesville, for celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary. It has set up an Institute of Inter-American Affairs, designed to be a living monument rather than a mere review of past achievements. This institute, which opened yesterday, is to take the place on the program usually given over on such occasions to historical pageants, the posting of bronze tablets and erection of statues. It is a forward-looking rather than a retrospective celebration...
Such an activity, knitting its fabric of understanding more firmly each year, will build a monument to outlast pageants, marble statues and bronze plaques. The monument will be erected in the minds and hearts of the two peoples. --The Christian Science Monitor...
...children's jingles. And last week William Hartman Woodin was the name listed as composer of four unpretentious musical impressions which Conductor Henry Hadley's Manhattan Orchestra played in St. George's Church. Fairly descriptive were the titles "Chinese Magic," "The Unknown Soldier" (inspired by a monument in Budapest, guarded always by a soldier on horseback), "Souvenir de Montmarte," "Tartar Dance." Composer Woodin relates that it was in the 1880's, when he, 18, was recovering from a throat operation in Vienna, spending his time in the Volksgarten listening to Johann Strauss conduct his own waltzes...