Word: souvenirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spot where it stood might be appropriate, though slightly blsarre. But the more logical feeling would be that the historical event, from association with which the tree had glory thrust upon it, is the thing chiefly to be remembered. The old elm had the dignity of a genuine souvenir, which characteristic is not likely to be present in an effigy in concrete. As a link with the past an artificial tree might be novel but scarcely compelling. If the spot is to be commemorated for the event that happened there, it could be done more directly. The Washington...
...means hang, draw and quarter Mr. Curtis and preserve his remains in the Anti-Saloon League museum at Mansfield as another souvenir of our progress toward true liberty and patriotism, under the guidance of the Watch and Ward zealots...
...confused with the Camp Fire Girls, founded by the late Dr. Luther. H. Gulick and Mrs. Gulick ("Timanous" and "Hiltini") at Wohelo (their summer camp), Lake Sebago, Me., also founded in 1912. Membership 170,000. ?He originally owned a seashell souvenir business, then founded the Shell Transport and Trading Co. which later joined its chief rival, The Royal Dutch Oil Co., to form The Royal Dutch-Shell trust...
That crabapple tree no longer stands. As testimony to the public morbidity which the murder, the various hearings, the long investigations have excited throughout the U. S., souvenir hunters long since rooted it up, tore it apart, carried it away. The bodies of Dr. Hall and Mrs. Mills, his mistress, were found side by side under the crabapple tree. A bullet had killed the amorous Episcopalian. The woman's throat was cut and there were three bullets in her head...
...walls, rows of stolid Vermonters, a white-surpliced young rector. The President and his wife came down the lane, down the aisle, sat down. Few looked at them. . . . The rector spoke, modernistically, then made an appeal for money for new hymnals, since the old ones had been stolen by souvenir-seekers. The President gazed vaguely at his 80-year-old uncle, John Wilder, singing lustily in the chorus in spite of the fact that he had fiddled for dancers far into the night before. ¶While the President and Mrs. Coolidge tour hither, thither, architects and workmen swarm about...