Word: monumentalize
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...know, dear Teta, that regardless of any charges by bank officials, not one cent has ever been taken by me in any way. On the contrary, all I have saved, my life savings for mother and you, have gone into the bank. It has been my pride and 'monument' . . . and it has been swept away and is a miserable failure. Our boy-your brother-gone. My health gone. My entire fortune- gone. My bank-my pride-gone. My friends-gone...
...International Committee. (Y. M. C. A. now works in 56 lands, with 1,606,376 members and $280,384,093 in property.) Y. M. C. A. luncheons all over the U. S. tuned in on the broadcast, heard Lord Allenby say: ''Here ... is erected an international monument to Peace and Brotherhood. Under its shadow, jarring sectarians may cease from wrangling; fierce passions be tamed; and men's minds be drawn to loftier ideals...
...stone floors. In the Secretary's anteroom with its stiff jet-black furniture and portraits of Hughes. Lansing, Colby and Kellogg, Italy's Augusto Rosso, proud of his "Americanism." waited his turn. So did Belgium's May, gazing wistfully out the window at the Victory monument of the A. E. F.'s First Division.* Other callers included Spain's de Cardenas, Sweden's Bostrom, Czechoslovakia's Veverka, Denmark's Wadsted...
...perhaps inevitable that any biography of Henry Adams will bring to its subject the same air of redundancy that a monument to Sir Christopher Wren must possess. "Sirequires monument, circumspice," can no more truly be said of the one than of the other, for they were both individuals whose lives, ambitions, and philosophies are expressed only in their works. Yet James Truslow Adams has attempted a short study of Henry Adams to serve as an introduction for the collected works of the author of St. Michael and Chartres...
...Gobi Desert. Since his father's death he has managed the family interest in Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. Quiet, clear-headed Bayard Colgate, now only 34, has again obtained control-which the Colgate family has not had since 1928-will try to right his great-grandfather's tilted monument...