Word: monumentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marines in 1805 at Derna should not be overemphasized, it was a bold stroke and gave Europe a foretaste of the kind of issue on which Americans will fight. Last week Benito Mussolini did not fail to stand at Derna in respectful, silent tribute at the monument of that onetime Connecticut schoolteacher who led the Marines in their glorious onslaught upon the barbarians of Barbary, a hero whose name many U. S. schoolchildren once knew, Captain William Eaton. Under his leader ship and the Stars & Stripes, the capture of Derna was made by 10 U. S. Marines, 38 Greeks...
...stuffed shirt, is locally famous for his humor, would not have permitted himself to be the model, seeks no fame through the Saint. TIME'S account was pleasant to read, partly incorrect, but not too grievously so. Friends of Bufano are glad the creation of a great monument to a great human being is the source of some warmth and humor. WILLIAM SAROYAN San Francisco, Calif...
...Melbourne, English ladies had celebrated the victory by running out onto the field and setting fire to the stumps, he had carefully collected the remains. Currently, the ashes imported by dashing Ivo Bligh are in the Trophy Chest at Lord's, capital of British cricket, as a monument to an immortal British joke...
...could boast, carried in them the spirit of the age. It was the age "of Shakespeare's London and the ships of the Elizabethan voyagers-- of men whose language was as vivid and as virile as their lives." Small wonder that their efforts came to fruit in "the noblest monument of English prose...
...blow against Americans and such "lesser breeds without the Law." And much was omitted from the book; eclectic rather than exhaustive, it was well titled Something of Myself for My Friends Known and Unknown. Kipling was no digger of his own dust, and his book was intended as a monument, not an exhibition. But friends and enemies alike found in it something of both...