Word: landmarking
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...William Roedel, elevator man at the Capitol Theatre, is five feet, six inches tall, and weighs 256 pounds. He is something of a landmark in the theatrical district. His passengers sometimes have to bend themselves into the shape of a crescent-" More than one newspaper reader stopped reading when he got that far and examined the headband of his newspaper to see if he had not picked up the informal New York World by mistake. But no, it was indeed the New York Times. Strange! Something certainly had come over that fatherly, dignified compendium, something that began perhaps, when...
...more alert of the Cleveland citizenry know that Dr. George Washington Crile is one of the great men of surgery. They know that his method of blocking nerves to prevent the shock of operations (anoci-association) is as great a landmark in medicine as the first application of anesthetics, that he has improved the method of transfusing blood; that he is a world authority on goiter, that at his Cleveland Clinic they may get a physical examination of scholarly exactitude. Very few know that he and his associates have performed 2,670 experiments on animals, including man, and made countless...
...that of picking writers who will survive the memories of their own brief generation. There is one writer alive today, however, in whose case the game loses all its uncertainty and danger. Were it only for the remarkable span of his literary life, Thomas Hardy will be a landmark. The Victorian ago, the decadence of the nineties, the war and its subsequent unsettled period have passed by Thomas Hardy and his most recent book, published a few months ago, has enough recent writing in it to prove his imperturbability. Professor Lowes will spend an hour on this near-century...
...Finally the poor rumshop keeper, rising in wrath, fell with the knife of an English sailor in his side. After nine days' mourning, Jezebel blossomed forth in magenta, and the handsome widow was soon an object of hate to all the married women of the island and a landmark of delight to visiting sailor...
Down on 42nd Street, workmen dug up the cornerstone of the old Murray Hill Baths, once known as "The House of a Thousand Hangovers," another landmark of a Manhattan that is vanishing. Underneath it they found a pint of champagne, two pieces of script, old-fashioned paper money (for 25? and 50?), four copper coins, and letters of patent issued to one Dwight Berry Brown in 1814 for the invention of a waterloom...