Word: memento
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Chicago was strident, corrupt, lavish, fat from war contracts in 1919 when a young hoodlum from Brooklyn slipped into Diamond Jim Colosimo's South Side underworld and muttered his name. The hoodlum, branded on one swart cheek by the razor memento of the Neapolitan Camorra, was Al Capone...
...signature to the joint resolution. Next minute, using another pen just like it, he signed proclamations defining combat areas (see p. 16), and banning belligerent submarines from U. S. ports. To Senator Key Pittman went one pen. To Representative Sol Bloom went another. A third-an expensive one that memento-loving Sol Bloom had bought just for the ceremony-the President decided to keep for himself. Off-stage a newsman won a dollar. He had bet that Representative Bloom would get the pen that signed the paper that lifted the embargo on the sale of arms and implements...
...fanatic until one day in 1932, when he tried to do an Immelmann turn from the ground, cracked up with two broken ankles and his face halfway through the dashboard. During his long hospital convalescence, he kept the broken instrument board at the foot of his bed, as a memento mori...
...Authority's safety board may not like-a blind landing runway separated by only 200 feet from the flanking water of Flushing Bay. Last week even Newark's stout advocates feared that C. A. A. might approve North Beach and old Newark Airport might become a ghostly memento in the marshy Jersey meadows...
...little provincial museum at Pau in Southern France snapped up the cotton market picture for $200 when it was exhibited in 1876. It is valued today at about $75,000. The picture last attracted attention in Paris at the Colonial Exposition of 1931 where it was shown as a memento of France's lost colony, Louisiana...