Word: monumentalize
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...since Goya. While he was in prison for his Socialism in 1931, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passes got him his first one-man show in the U. S. In July 1936, he finished his most ambitious mural, eleven panels containing 140 life-size figures, for Madrid's monument to the founder of Spanish Socialism, Pablo Iglesias. A few nights later Painter Quintanilla made himself a hero of the Republic by directing the attack which took the Montaña barracks in Madrid...
...buffet was piled $1,800 worth of cake, pastry and hors d'oeuvres, including the Washington Monument in sugar and a reproduction of Mt. Vernon. On another were the makings of 10,000 cocktails. Standing beside his loyal friend, Senator Sherman Minton, High Commissioner McNutt greeted 3,000 guests as they passed down the receiving line. Conspicuously absent were most higher officials of the New Deal and Franklin Roosevelt's Cabinet, which was represented only by Attorney General Homer Cummings and Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper. Earlier in the day, in the presence of newsreel photographers, the guest...
...Manager Nish Dienhart descended on Washington, grandly offered the north-west 400 acres of their new 974-acre, $1,500,000 municipal airport to the B. A. C. as a free gift from a great-hearted city. Safely inland in case of war, less than eight miles from downtown Monument Circle, the airport is completely equipped, free of obstructions, has unlimited acreage for expansion, and would make an ideal permanent test field. To make B. A. C. feel at home, the city is prepared to float a $65,000 bond issue for necessary buildings. Behind such generosity is Indianapolis...
Across the U. S., from Vermont to Utah, stretches a chain of 80-odd monuments, testimony of the rise of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the East, and its long trek westward a century ago in search of religious and economic freedom. A notable marker is the one on the hill east of Salt Lake City where Brigham Young first gazed over the Salt Lake Valley, exclaimed: 'This is the place!" This small stone, it was announced last week, is to be replaced next year by a monument more fitting to the great occasion...
...revised the manuscript, and 70-year-old Herndon got only $300 for his share of the work and for his collection of Lincoln documents that afterwards sold for more than $300,000. Slandered as an atheist, a drunkard, a scandalmonger, a drug addict, Herndon died in 1891, his great monument to his hero disfigured, unpopular, neglected to this...