Word: monumentalize
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Three years ago small, tight-lipped Senator Morris Sheppard, whose proudest boast is that he helped write the 18th Amendment, boasted proudly: "There's as much chance of repealing the 18th Amendment as there is for a humming bird to fly to Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail." Last week humming bird and Washington Monument were well on their way to Mars when Senator Sheppard's own mammoth Texas became the 23rd consecutive State to plump for Repeal. In a light vote, due to public apathy and a $1.75 poll tax, the 21st Amendment...
...setting fire to the building, exultant citizens stormed the residential quarter of Havana, sacking mansion after mansion, wrecking automobiles and stealing everything movable from the house of Secretary of State Orestes Ferrara. Signs marking General Machado Avenue were torn down for a distance of three miles, the imposing Machado Monument was destroyed by patriots with crowbars. Meanwhile where was Machado? Who was President...
...sliding caisson will drop behind them. Four 54-in. centrifugal pumps will take out water until the ship sits on the concrete bottom, propped upright so that its hull may be scraped.* Flanking the dry dock are a mile and a half of new quays. Nearby a monument marks the spot whence the Mayflower...
...realism of mood and swirl of action The First World War cannot be compared in scope or variety with the great ten-volume Photographic History of the Civil War issued in 1911 by Review of Reviews Co. That work still stands as an unchallenged monument to War Photographer Matthew Brady and his aides who also recorded the four-year struggle on some 7,000 wet plates that had to be developed five minutes after exposure. World War cameramen with their improved equipment remain nameless heroes. From the bottom of their portfolios were lifted such blood-curdling pictures as went into...
...Plymouth all points of historic interest will be visited, including Plymouth Rock; Cole's Hill; Burial Hill; Forefather's Monument; the Harlow House, erected in 1677 from timbers of the old fort on Burial Hill; and Pilgrim Hall, which contains the best collection of relics of Pilgrim life in the country. The tickets for this excursion include a 75 mile trip in special buses, and admission to all houses included in the itinerary...