Word: monumentalize
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...should "the Great Lexicographer" far outrun in fame his 20th Century namesake when the latter's work is completed. Twenty volumes containing lives of U. S. celebrities (dead 25 years at the minimum) would be a monument to any man that compiled them. Moreover, the second Dr. Johnson was chosen because it is intended that the work shall be finally authoritative, modeled on the English Dictionary of National Biography, edited by the late Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sydney Lee. He was chosen because his record (as professor, as biographer of Stephen A. Douglas, as U. S. historian, as supervisor...
...inherited from these women an orange grove in Florida, began his experiments. He worked in seclusion, held prayers in his private chapel. Others benefited by his researches and Gong died a poor man. Said Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor: "The orange growers of the United States should build a monument to his memory, and doubtless they will...
Bids were opened at Washington for an elevator to travel 250 ft. a minute, to replace the 100 ft. a minute elevator in the Washington Monument. The old elevator has been out of order; and at present the 553 ft. shaft is a "walk...
...statues for a building on the Strand. He supplied 18 heroic nudes in all postures. The public screamed. Epstein remarked : "The Capital of the British Empire is so used to statues in frock coats and trousers that these struck them as brutal truth." He was commissioned to make a monument for Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris. He furnished a "symbolic figure." The Prefecture of Police and the cemetery authorities interfered- hung a large bronze fig leaf on the statue. A few nights later, when Epstein was sitting in the Cafe Royal, a student marched in wearing the bronze...
Finally, and most important, a useful monument is an insult to the memory of the dead. Even a chapel would be a useful monument, on the door of which posterity might well read, "Dedicated with One Eye on the Memory of the Harvard Dead, and other on the Seating Requirements of the Harvard Living." Such a memorial would lose its sacred majesty amid the laughter of men who no longer believe in the pragmatic philosophy, "It's good if it works...