Word: souvenired
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...Force appealed for the return to Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg of his $50 uniform cap, which he lost at a luncheon in Detroit in August. The general's hat was "unique and unmistakably identifiable and encrusted clear around with silver lightning." The "overzealous souvenir hunter . . . cannot brag about it to friends, nor hang it proudly over the mantel, nor wear it . . ." If the hat is returned, "the general is willing to forgive and forget with no questions asked...
...terrace of Graasten Castle, the royal summer home near Sonderborg, Jutland, King Frederilc of Denmark, with Queen Ingrid, the Princesses Anne-Marie, 6, Benedikte, 8, and Margrethe, 12, posed for a family portrait wearing souvenir gifts from their recent visit to Greenland. The King wore a white Anorak, a soft cotton turtleneck shirt; the Queen and her daughters modeled Kamikker boots and pearl-embroidered sealskin dresses...
...University students and a Dartmouth sophomore saw a little illegal souvenir hunting turn into a national incident late in August...
...equipped with floodlights, and a public address system was installed to broadcast reports of the visions to the waiting crowds. Pilgrims contributed heavily for the shrines and other local improvements urged by the "vision children" on "instructions" which the Virgin passed on to them. Packed inns and crowded souvenir shops lifted Heroldsbach's 1,100 inhabitants to a wild zenith of prosperity...
Dali's friends and admirers went into a frenzy of defense. But the master himself seemed supremely unconcerned. "Plagiarism?" he snorted. "Just my own original method of using images from my dreams and from some souvenir of long ago. I myself will discover hundreds of so-called plagiarisms in my work . . . The cover of my latest book is a collage of Leonardo's Mono, Lisa. I have no less than six paintings strictly derived from Millet's Angelus. Let my enemies gloat . . . To imitate is not important. To be inimitable is most important. I remain...