Word: monumentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away all respectable people . . . The young idealist who walked out of the Louvre with Watteau's "L'indifferente" under his coat was recently sentenced to two years imprisonment. He claimed that the painting had been badly retouched and that he had intended to improve its condition . . . The Percy Haughton monument at Soldiers Field was done by Dr. Mackenzie, a truly great sculptor. Ironic as it may seem, the figures done in relief on the monument are actual representations of members of the last Penn football team to play Harvard. Players of the 1928 squad posed for the sculptor...
...monument in the Vosges marks the spot where, in 1914, Grand Rabbi Abraham Bloch was killed while bringing a cross to a dying French officer. Last week Grand Rabbi Maurice Liber, peacetime head of Paris' rabbinical school, now aumônier general for the army's Jews, combed France for Jewish chaplains. Entitled to 48, he could find only 26. The total enrollment of the rabbinical school-twelve youths-was mobilized in the army, but proved insufficiently trained to serve as aumƦniers...
...monument to the career of 58-year-old Gus Edwards, who served as its technical adviser, The Star Maker, shrewdly aimed at the U. S. cinema public's demonstrated appetite for nostalgia and precocity, should be a turning point in the career of another veteran showman. The picture resulted from a meeting in Hollywood last year between ailing, retired Impresario Edwards and oldtime Moviemaker Charles R. Rogers, who had just been fired as production head of Universal. With the Edwards life story in his briefcase, unemployed Producer Rogers set out to do a picture on his own, went...
Churchill and Garner are alike as a blade of grass is like an oak, as a stream is like the ocean, as a pebble is like a mountain, and as a pin is like the Washington Monument. In about these proportions...
...Seed Co., originally the Wallace family's), which increases yields 10 to 20%. In corn-growing Iowa, 79% of this year's acreage was planted with yield-increasing seed. Lately Henry Wallace on his daily walk to his office in Washington has taken to stopping in Washington Monument grounds to practice with a boomerang for exercise. But he never threw a better boomerang than his own hybrid seed, whose production economies and improved yield are no consolation to hopelessly overcapacitated corn farmers...