Word: monumentalize
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...Some men endow a hospital or put up a monument to mark what they consider a miraculous escape, but Anderson wrote a book, The Other Side of the Bottle (A. A. Wyn; $3), published last week as part of his contribution to the saving of other alcoholics. Longtime Pressagent Anderson did publicity for the Medical Society of the State of New York soon after he was dried out, became its executive secretary in 1945. He has pitched in as a director of the National Committee on Alcoholism to help doctors reach and treat more & more of his fellow sufferers...
...were a vet I would suggest you ought to be destroyed. As it is, I can only suggest that you climb Nelson's Monument and jump into Trafalgar Square. That is, if your back doesn't hurt too much...
...lord's friend, the poet Jeremy Tipple. At first a pretty little country house, the building becomes in turn a town house crowded by a garish gin palace and a draper's shop, a mason's workshop, and finally-in the Drayneflete Plan-a pickled historical monument ornamenting a main traffic artery...
Princess Margriet, 7, performed her first public function by unveiling the monument. Also present was three-year-old Princess Marijke, who was annoyed by the singing of several hundred Haarlem children and cried: "I want to go home. It is no good." Apart from this incident, the ceremonies went off smoothly. In time, even the literal-minded Dutch might come to believe in the Hero of Haarlem...
...from that to organized rebellion. Buried in Professor Skinner's report is the note that at least one of his pigeons appeared on a window sill and virtually volunteered for the experiment; the word is obviously getting around. As far as we're concerned, pigeons exist solely to give monument cleaners a chance to earn an honest living. An educated pigeon will inevitably try to get something more...