Word: monumentalize
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...saga has to do mainly with a family of Raricks upon whom life brings many blessings in the shape of a chain of 5? & 10? stores. Little weazened Father Rarick acquires the happy faculty of buying hairnets and celluloid balls low and selling them higher builds a 79-story monument to himself, misunderstands his family. His pampered, poetical son, Avery, commits suicide at college because, "it was too much." Mother Rarick bitterly tries to suck romance out of a surreptitious affair with another woman's gigolo, Ramond. Her daughter is fascinated by a handsome married man whose wife...
...Congress appropriated $25,000 for a monument to mark the spot where General Andrew Jackson with his 4,000 raw recruits lay behind cotton bales as Sir Edward Michael Pakenham's 5,000 British veterans made their dawn attack on Jan. 8, 1815. Twice the redcoats charged. Twice they withered under U. S. fire, twice were driven back. Pakenham himself was killed. Jackson lost 13 men, the British...
...with Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson. With him he carried a speech on waterways for delivery later in the week at Minneapolis, whither he and many another bigwig were supposed to go to help a shrewd man named Wilbur Burton Foshay dedicate a new office building designed like the Washington Monument...
Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia sportsman-financier, ordered his two-acre Elmendorf Farm in Lexington, Ky., to be converted into a cemetery for the Widener thoroughbred horses. The central monument will be a large statue of Fair Play, sire of famed, fleet...
...solution of the boundary dispute. It provided: 1) Chile to retain Arica and its nitrate fields, Peru to take Tacna with its vineyards; 2) Chile to pay Peru six million dollars; to deliver all government buildings in Tacna to Peru without cost; 3) both nations to erect jointly a monument on the morro of Arica to commemorate the peaceful settlement of the dispute...