Word: monumentalize
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...still believes in "victory." His defense of his own conduct as War Prime Minister of England is detailed but lucid; he writes trenchantly, aggressively, persuasively, in thoughts of one syllable. His book, when completed, will fit more neatly than most into the statesmen's monument to the Unknown Soldier...
Died. Sir Cecil Chubb, First Baronet of Stonehenge, 58; of heart disease; in London. He purchased Stonehenge, England's famed megalithic monument, for $50,000 in 1915, later presented it to his country...
...wants to be the only man in the world to own a "British Guiana, 1856, 1¢ magenta," it will cost him no less than $50,000. That is the price now set on the stamp by Philatelist Hind's widow, Mrs. Pascal Costa Scala, who last spring married a monument salesman who called to sell a tombstone for her husband's grave. Mrs. Scala announced last week that she would shortly take her valuable sliver of red paper to London's Royal Philatelic Society where prospective purchasers will have a chance to examine...
...side by side with Feodor Dostoevsky's The House of Death and e. e. cummings' The Enormous Room, a place will be found for the late Aladar Kuncz's Black Monastery. The record of a five-year imprisonment in France during the War, this book is a subtly horrible monument to man's inhumanity to man. Superficially less gruesome than many a record of front-line fighting, its nightmarish quality develops imperceptibly, will leave most readers shaking their heads in an unsuccessful attempt to forget...
...years ago is a proposition only recently established by Dr. Rosenberg. Charlemagne represented an "alien principle" (Christianity) whereas the Saxons with whom he did battle were archetypal Nazis fighting for "blood and soil." Charlemagne slew 4,500 Saxons at Verden and there this spring Dr. Rosenberg had a monument of 4,500 stone blocks erected in their honor. Unmoved by twits from the Catholic press for rewriting history to suit his own beliefs, Dr. Rosenberg orated: "After, 1,000 years . . . the will of the old Saxons became victorious through national socialism...