Word: mementoed
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...ball around the courtyard of a French monastery some 700 years ago, and the sag hadn't changed. Neither had the court, very much-it still had most of the features of the old courtyard the monks used. On three sides, a sloping roof (called penthouse) was a memento of the monastery's cow sheds...
...Memento. In Wenatchee, Wash., Mrs. H. F. Morse asked city garbage-disposal officers to help her retrieve a pink girdle from the city dump, explained that it was an item "of great sentimental value...
Atop a hill in a Toronto residential area stands a stolid, stone anachronism, Casa Loma. A mixture of 17th Century Scotch baronial and 20th Century-Fox, the castle rears its turrets as a memento to one Canadian's short-lived dream of glory. Starting in 1911, financier Sir Henry Pellatt poured an estimated $3,000,000 into the old-world battlements, wine cellars, secret stairways and tunnels; into the new-world trimmings, tiled swimming pool, modern plumbing (solid gold & silver fixtures), bowling alley, shooting galleries. Before Casa Loma's 100 rooms were completely finished or furnished, Sir Henry...
...late, encouraging full discussion of such details as church finances (as troublesome to St. James' as to most small town parishes). An unusual duty came when King George and Queen Elizabeth sent the church a morocco-bound copy of the King James Version of the Bible as a memento of their 1939 visit. Senior Warden Roosevelt and Vestryman Gerald Morgan were appointed a committee of two to draft a suitable note of thanks...
...tweeds and business suits, gabardines and sports jackets, the men shuffled in. They stood with bowed heads as the chaplain prayed, listened to copybook homilies on justice, freedom, democracy. With each installment they received a memento: with justice, a red poppy and a copy of the U.S. Constitution; with freedom, a tiny flag; with democracy, the bronze Legion emblem. They raised their right arms-all except the veteran who had left his on Guadalcanal-to take the Legion oath. The commander spread his arms in a clerical gesture, intoned again: "Comrades, I welcome...