Word: monumentalize
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...beat the French. The latest and one of the best of the great sailor's biographies logs in scholarly detail the main tacks of a gusty life that carried him to the top of the column in London's Trafalgar Square-not to mention the Nelson monument in Dublin, where James Joyce's hero, mindful of Lady Hamilton, referred to him as "the onehandled adulterer...
...Probably the most charming extravert in the Western world," marveled a rival editor. Ebullient, egocentric, suave and unflaggingly dynamic, Herbert Bayard Swope stood splendidly apart in an era of splendid individualists. As reporter, foreign correspondent and executive editor on the famed New York World-Joseph Pulitzer's proudest monument-Swope gave a glamorous flair to the incisive, personalized brand of U.S. journalism that flourished before World War I and stretched into...
...years Belgian Archaeologist Edmond Fouss has been excavating Roman and pre-Roman ruins near the village of Buzenol in southern Belgium. Three weeks ago his workers came on a wall of stone blocks apparently taken from a monument built in the 1st or 2nd century A.D. and made into a fortification. Many of them are carved, showing scenes of ancient provincial life. On one of them are a man and woman holding hands. Nude dancers gambol across another...
...wide screen and brigades of extras-helped out New York City on a problem of medium-high learning. Donated by DeMille: four plaques, to be placed at the foot of Cleopatra's Needle, the 3,500-year-old Egyptian obelisk in Central Park, with a translation of the monument's hieroglyphics. For the occasion, DeMille recalled his urchin days in the wilds of the big city: "As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures. I saw my first lion and tiger in the Central Park Zoo. I used to play ball...
...soon he has got into trouble with the police, changed his name to Shaw and become the most triple-dyed villain since East Lynne. And one of his schoolmates, pretty Dora Dienst. listens to the. siren song with the seemingly inevitable result: she becomes a boozy prostitute and a monument of perfidy...