Word: monumentalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain that mine will not be the only letter you receive in correction of the awkward blunder in TIME of May 10 [EDUCATION], when you state that H. R. H. the Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden comes to America to be present at the unveiling of a monument to Leif Ericsson, the early discoverer of America...
Great men die and are laid to rest with all the pomp and ceremony due them. Monuments are erected, grim, ugly things, with great names carved in cold, lifeless stone, incompatible above all things with the vitality, the enterprise that made their owners mighty. In August, 1919, a great man died in Manhattan, was given pompous Jewish burial from the Temple Emanuel. He had his monument of stone. Last week his son announced that he would build another memorial, one more worthy of his father. The son is Arthur Hammerstein, famed Manhattan theatrical producer, son of Oscar, famed impresario...
...Passed a bill providing $30,000 to erect a monument in France to the 93rd (Negro) Division of the A. E. F. (Bill went to Senate...
...same coming event. Minister Bliss straightened out his papers and left Stockholm for Washington. The Yale secretary prepared an announcement, because His Royal Highness, Gustaf Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden and Duke of Skane, is this month coming to the U. S. to attend the unveiling of a monument to Viking Leif Ericsson* at the Capital. Minister Bliss must help President Coolidge entertain. Yale, which has not had a special convocation since Marshal Foch visited it in 1921, † is going to confer upon the Prince, "archeologist, musician, athlete and religious leader," an honorary LL.D...
...seems to me that monuments should be free from at least human indiscretions. Suppose you were to save your country from the British or the Boers or something and had a monument erected by your friends to commemorate the fact. Would it please you to have Mazie and her boy friend taking pictures with your monument for background? Your heroic bones would squirm in the final resting place and your spirit would sock some unsuspecting medium in the seventh veil. At least, if they wouldn't, you are not fit to be called a four hundred descent Bostonian...