Word: monuments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...describing the Presidency in intimate visual detail, including many shots of the White House upstairs as it now looks during the occupancy of the Franklin D. Roosevelts. For the first time since Lincoln, the public can look out through the front portico from the upper hall, out to the Monument from the President's Study, around the Study at Mr. Roosevelt's ship models and family portraits...
...four lone bottles credited to Princeton show that President Dodds' request must have had some effect. No other team this fall, or for many years, has ever left such a small and shoddy monument to its entertainment by fair Harvard, as Princeton's two pint botties and the robust quart. Amherst, Brown, and Dartmouth all left approximately twenty-five times as many dead men, that is, about 100. In all of these games Harvard's consumption was apparently far below what greeted the Tiger, for the arrival of the Nassau delegation upped the Crimson empties by about fifty per cent...
...National Socialist Movement") for afternoon parades and evening torchlight demonstrations. Son-in-law Ciano laid a wreath on the steps of the Heroes' Temple in which are buried Storm Troopers killed in bloody German street brawls before the Nazis came to power. He laid another wreath on the monument marking the spot on which Government machine guns in 1923 opened fire on the "Beer Hall Putsch" followers of General Erich Ludendorff who marched on unscathed and Corporal Adolf Hitler who flung himself upon the ground, later escaped slightly wounded, only to be arrested and held for eight months...
...Hoisman are given over to a list of the poet's scattered writing; the remainder describe his early failures in Latin, his work in the Patent Office, his quarrels with other Latinists, his arrogance, acid humor, anti-social habits and desire to erect an imperishable monument to his name...
Thomas H. Stephenson '37, president of the Debating Society, carried off the speaking honors as he gracefully glided through three minutes of pleasant drivel about the Old Howard, Landon-Roosevelt political backwash, and speaking from the monument at Radcliffe...