Word: monumented
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...hail of small-arms fire, and some shells from 88s and 105s, met the 2nd and 69th Infantry Divisions fighting their way in. The doughboys mopped up resistance, except for a nest of Germans, including the garrison commander holed up in the huge, red granite "Battle of the Nations" monument (a memorial to the defeat of Napoleon by a Prussian-Austrian-Russian-Swedish coalition...
Founded on a ridiculous misconception of justice, produced by Selznick International with unfailing sentimentality, and ludicrously miscast in attempt to use available star talent, "I'll Be Seeing You" is an imposing monument to the maudlin tastes and perverted emotions of Hollywood's film-makers...
...bank of the placid Moskva, close to the Kremlin, a prodigious peacetime project was resumed. The project: the erection of the world's mightiest monument, the Palace of the Soviets, dedicated to Soviet Russia's founding father, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin...
...front page in the land, was turning up again in fancy, full-page color in U.S. Sunday papers. It was easily the most widely printed photograph of World War II. One Senator proposed it for a 3? stamp; a Congressman wanted it used as a model for a national monument...
...Products of Contentment. Philadelphia's drinking water is notoriously rank, its city hall a $26,000,000 monument to graft and bad taste. But underneath the smugness of Philadelphia life is a quality of repose" that Struthers Burt spends most of his 396 pages trying to define. Much of this feeling comes from the old Philadelphia houses, three stories in front, with a two-story ell leading back to the alley, spacious, light and comfortable dwellings whose warm rooms were made for good dinners and good conversation...