Word: monumentalize
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...Mayor's order was issued at 9:40 P.M. Within two hours all bars and night clubs began ushering their patrons out. Next day the city was a monument to confusion. Policemen stationed at all subway entrances told people to go back home. All bars, movies, theaters, museums and libraries were shut. Window shopping was the order of the day. Until the strike was settled, the city was dead...
...iridescent slime on top of it, Written on the Wind might have been more than neurally exciting. If Frances Parkinson Keyes (rhymes with eyes) could write a novel as well as she can organize one, The River Road might have been a relevant resuscitation instead of a 747-page monument to the past. If both novelists had been stirred by the vitality of U.S. life, instead of by dead ends, these novels might have been milestones instead of epitaphs...
...them "muggs") upstairs into a dusty, top-floor parlor. He was going away for 'a couple of months, he said, and short, swart, 210-pound Nat Kahn, eight years a mugg, would be boss. Out in Hollywood, Green will help Warner Bros, erect it's long-planned monument to the man who made slangy Variety the "showbiz" oracle it is: Founder Sime ("Mr. Broadway") Silverman...
...book is also a sprawling monument to Author Murray's career as president of Oklahoma's constitutional convention, speaker of its first state legislature. Congressman in Washington, D.C.. successful lawyer in Indian territory, where he married the niece of a Chickasaw governor, negotiator of Indian treaties, colonist in South America (he headed a colony in Bolivia), governor (1931-35) of Oklahoma...
...medieval church was strong on mummery. A common ecclesiastical practice was to elect a "boy bishop" (Episcopus Puerorum) to hold office from the Eve of St. Nicholas, Dec. 5, to Holy Innocents' Day, Dec. 28. Salisbury Cathedral contains an elaborate monument to such a boy bishop who died "in office" and was buried with full episcopal honors...