Word: souvenired
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...strange liquid did not harm fresh leucocytes (white blood corpuscles); 2) injections of the liquid did not hurt mice; 3) some bacteria (e.g., whooping cough bacillus) lived in the liquid as cozily as in a baby's throat. Modest Dr. Fleming saved the moldy plate as a souvenir, still...
...Welcomed Eleanor Roosevelt back from a 24-day, 14,000 mile jaunt through the Caribbean. Arriving home, tanned and longing for a shampoo, Mrs. Roosevelt brought a souvenir for the President's library: a model jangada (native one-sail, one-paddle boat) made by a Recife fisherman. Said she to the press: "Easter? Oh, it's next week, isn't it? I haven't any new clothes and won't have...
Women in the Gilberts have never been wholly converted to the mission-style dress from neck to knee. By signs, a New York sergeant conveyed to a Makin girl that he wanted a grass skirt for a souvenir. Quickly she whipped hers off, politely offered it. The red-faced soldier hastily gave the gift-giver a large bandana handkerchief. Graciously she accepted, deftly wrapped it around her head...
...please return the same to Max Plattner or me at the Tampa Terrace Hotel. Because of war conditions impossible to purchase more for the duration. Other fans broken beyond repair. These are my tools and I cannot work without same. It is of no value to you as a souvenir. It is irreplaceable to me. Please...
Hobby Horses. In Portland, Ore., Mayor Earl Riley got a letter from a woman in Canton, Ohio: "I have a hobby collecting horses and try to get one from each state as a souvenir. . . . Would you please oblige and send me one, any kind, as I have all kinds. Send C.O.D." Witness. In Bayonne, N.J., the late Dr. John Jay Hunt named "God Almighty" as witness to his will, bequeathed his patients' unpaid bills to the Salvation Army or the Red Cross, requested that his ashes be cast into the sea. The will was declared invalid because the signature...