Word: monumentalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more appropriate organization could be named as the one to erect a memorial to Joseph Conrad than the Seaman's Institute. And in choosing a Library--to be built in New York--as the most fitting monument to the late writer the Institute has exercised good judgment, for thus will be united the two strongest influences in Conrad's life literature and the sea. The announcement of the members of the honorary committee elected to act with the Board of Managers is sufficient proof that the library will be proportionate to the genius of the man whose name it bears...
...Whether she [Mrs. Coolidge] sits and knits, chatting with a friend or two in her lovely upstairs sitting-room with the view where the glorious Washington Monument pierces the blue sky and the green shores of Virginia rise beyond the Potomac, or whether she stands in a gown of state of white-and-gold brocade, about to receive some royal visitor, the present mistress of the White House is always a real person-just as real, just as sincere, just as easily understandable, as was tiny Grace Goodhue in Vermont or older Grace Goodhue of the Burlington [Vt.] High School...
Ominous Prelude. The conference had opened on a gloomy morning after a ceremony majestic but depressing. Edward of Wales, in short, had solemnly unveiled a monument at Westminster Abbey. "In memory of the one million dead of the British Empire who fell in the Great War." Moreover President (Premier)** William Thomas Cosgrave of the Irish Free State had added gloom to the unveiling by refusing to attend. His absence, he explained, was out of respect to the "pain" still felt by Free Staters at the use of British troops to put down the Dublin uprising...
...windows of the Havana Automobile Co. and the Ford Motor Branch were blown in. Camp Columbia had vanished. Ambulance surgeons began making up a death list;* truly the hurricane, blowing cone-shaped out of the West Indies, had done its work. And in the middle of Havana the American monument lay on its face...
...welter flash raucous snatches of prairie humor, vivid actions, scatterbrained flights of self-pitying, self-despising, pagan philosophy. The father looms as a monument of malicious, brooding egotism. Brother Tom is a semi-imbecile with a bulbous head, liquid eyes and great sensitivity; he married a Danish farm wench and went to Mexico City to found a socialist commonwealth...