Word: monumentalize
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Upon Morningside Heights, on the Island of Manhattan, is slowly arising a mammoth monument Gloriae Dei?the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (TIME, July...
...make this offer in the hope that it may be regarded as an appropriate gift from one of the Jewish faith who wishes to be among those contributing to the establishing your great Cathedral as a civic monument dedicated to the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, and as an expression that spirituality has an abiding place in the great community...
...December American Mercury, the unrest became drastic. Prof. Richard Burton, of the University of Min- nesota, took Why Go To College for a text and preached the exclusion from seats of learning, not only of the "cake eater" (see above), but also of that "monument of misapplied energy" and "machinelike assiduity," the dig, grind, poler, swatter, the "young man or woman of mediocre or worse calibre who lacks initiative, personality, creative energy. . . ." Prof. Burton, a man evidently conversant with culture in many forms, was scornful of that form which is "a sort of contagion; you get it by being exposed...
...national anthem. The massive main iron gates were thrown open and through them slowly passed the state coach, six footmen walking on either side. In the rear the Captain of the Household Cavalry led his troop and the small procession passed out into the Mall beyond the Victorial Monument amid deafening cheers from a million uncovered heads and the flutterings of handkerchiefs from the hands of the heads that were covered. On either side soldiers of the five Guards Regiments (Coldstream, Grenadier, Irish, Scots, Welsh), standing rigidly with presented arms, lined the streets from the Palace, along the Mall...
...presence of Major General James G. Harbord, U. S. A., retired, who represented President Coolidge, and many distinguished Cubans and Americans, Mrs. Roosevelt pulled down the flag which shrouded the monument. Military and naval officers stood at the salute, civilians bared their heads...