Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know all about Parkman's slaying, but nothing is said of the reasons why Boston was so shaken. But the old anecdotes bear repetition, and the new ones are often as good; so the book is generally a success, if taken as a collection of interesting memorabilia...
...first major U.S. genre (everyday-life) painter was last week just 100 years in the past. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum paid William Sidney Mount a fitting tribute with a show of oils, watercolors, sketches and memorabilia...
...keen as a boy with a brand-new bicycle, took the guests to see the apple of his eye, his pet project, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library: three stories of fieldstone cottage, in whose 60-odd exhibition rooms and offices are being installed one of the greatest collections of memorabilia and historic junk ever gathered-a collection that ranges from a Russian Tsar's red-felt-lined droshky to Roosevelt's vast political and naval library, his hundreds of boxes of papers...
...symbols, which brought him popular fame. Granting the fact that many people found such poetry haunting, it remained a question why the human mind was so mysteriously hauntable. Yeats had looked for an answer, not in psychoanalysis, but in psychological religions - Rosicrucianism, Cabalism, Swedenborg, Boehme, Blake- and in the memorabilia of men of literary and artistic genius, from Homer to Ezra Pound. Through this darkling maze Yeats resolutely followed his nose. He was hot on the track of the thing that would enable a poet to know just what he is doing, when he writes a poem that will haunt...