Word: monumentalize
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...arrival of a little yellow post card has just reminded me that there is a Class Administration. In fact, these annual ballots are the only apparent phenomena of that august body, and will pass on to posterity as the chief monument to its existence...
...Following his address, the President will march out to the east steps of the Capitol to lead the singing of "America" by 10,000 massed voices accompanied by three bands and conducted by Walter Damrosch. The composite result will be broadcast. There will be afternoon exercises at the Washington monument, a ball in the evening for which the costumes were designed by one Anne Washington. Once under way, the Bicentennial celebration will be the occasion for protracted and unprecedented patriotic adulation, artistic and otherwise...
News last week got out of the Blue Ridge foothills about a country doctor's monument to his kind. Dr. Henry Boardman Stewart, 77, has been practicing in & around Fair View, S. C. (pop. 45) for 51 years. He has been the sponsor of the Fair View Stock Show, county fair which had its 43rd session last October. Last: summer old Country Doctor Stewart caused the erection of a three-ton granite slab. Carved on one end is his name as donor, at the other end is a doctor's satchel. The front is "dedicated to the memory...
...going to take the car. I don't need it and I believe in setting an example in Government economy. It doesn't take an auto to make an office dignified. Mrs. Garner and I walk from our hotel to Peace Monument every day the weather permits. There we usually take one of those 20? taxicabs for the ride up Capitol Hill. A car costs about $5,000 a year- $3,000 for the machine and $2,000 for a driver to sit in it all day. I don't want anybody sitting around all day waiting...
...swearing, an expensive ocean carry, a perilous rail trip, Dr. Chiera got his bull to Chicago. He kept it out on a football field under tarpaulins until the new building was ready. Now, until Chicago decays and disappears and future diggers wonder if Sargon's Bull is a monument to the prehistoric Chicago stockyards, it will stand as a most tangible piece of archaeological evidence, an irrefutable argument for digging into humanity's past...