Word: monumentalize
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...received Marie-Louise, where 510 years ago Joan of Arc surrendered to the Duke of Burgundy and 22 years ago a delegation of Germans signed an armistice dictated by France's Marshal Ferdinand Foch. Before Adolf Hitler as he stepped out of the car stood France's monument to Alsace-Lorraine. German war flags covered the sculptured sword thrust into a limp German eagle. Swastika banners hid the inscription beneath: To the Heroic Soldiers of France, Defenders of the Country and of Right, Glorious Liberators of Alsace-Lorraine...
Adolf Hitler gazed at the monument, then walked slowly down the avenue 200 yards to the clearing. He wore a double-breasted, grey field uniform with the Iron Cross hanging from his left breast pocket. Behind him walked the six highest officials of the German Third Reich: Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring in the blue uniform of the Air Force, his Field Marshal's baton in his right hand; Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the German Armed Forces, his cap cocked jauntily on one side; Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch in field grey; Grand Admiral...
Hidden, confused, perhaps protected by it, Paris entered upon the second great week of tragedy in its long history. Paris that had meant so many things to so many people, the city that stood as Western civilization's tallest monument to art, science, letters, liberty and love, faced abandonment or destruction...
Renamed for the composer were: a Moscow street, the Moscow symphony orchestra, a new Moscow concert hall, two music schools in towns where he once lived. Said Pravda: "He is the most beloved composer of the Soviet masses-he is the toilers' favorite." A monument was ordered built for Tschaikowsky in Moscow. At the Bolshoi Theatre a Tschaikowsky concert brought out the diplomatic corps, Foreign Commissar Molotov, War Commissar Timoshenko, ex-War Commissar Voroshilov-and Stalin...
...Monument. Messrs. Stephenson & Dunn's 1,069-page biography of Washington contains little new material-two minor Washington letters. The authors, oldfashioned, admiring, cautious, feel about Washington's recent debunkers-W. E. Woodward, Rupert Hughes-as Cal Coolidge did. "Well," said he, "I see the [Washington] monument is still there." Biographers Stephenson & Dunn will have no truck with the legend that Washington was in love with Sally Fairfax, wife of his close neighbor and friend; they discreetly evade speculation on whether his feelings for Martha were no more than dutiful. Stanch alibiers for his military blunders, they uncritically...