Word: souvenior
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...this is only a single example of that American disease known as "souvenior-collecting". According to Europe, America entered the War for the sake of souvenirs; the hammers of Yankee vandals have chipped corners from every unguarded work of art from the Sphinx to the Coliseum; and probably some ingenious progenitor is responsible for the present condition of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, and Venus de Milo. Innumerable replicas have saved the Lion of Lueerne, and in the Lincoln Memorial is a gentleman who follows every visitor around at a polite distance to preserve the gleaming integrity of the marble...
PACH BROS. have about finished the senior class photographs and there is more time now to make the interior views that are wanted and no better souvenior of college life can be had than a picture of your room...
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