Word: souvenired
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Until recently, James Ensor kept open his father's little Ostend souvenir shop, did an average business of 35 francs a day. Before the war the painter was heavily represented in the museums of Antwerp, Brussels, Dresden and Vienna, and not at all in the museums of England, where he held his first British exhibition...
...gentle guy, who carried books right to Guadal. The red-haired MacNair, big, burly and a slave laborer, was Flight Officer: he used to discuss religion and marriage and the mystery of becoming a father 6,000 miles from the delivery room. Bill Henry and Al Russell were incurable souvenir hunters who came out loaded with doodads like a couple of Cook's tourists. Ralph Weymouth, married to a French girl, talked world affairs. Neil Weary was the playboy. Dick Balenti was called The Chief because his Indian blood showed. Al Wright passed the cigars every evening and told...
...drops in at the P-X he can hang around the place, chew the fat of the post, get a copy of True Romances, watch officer's and noncoms' wives come in for meat and groceries, make restrained horseplay with other fellows. There he can buy cigarets, souvenir ash trays, candy, razor blades, gasoline, Sunday uniforms-more than 6,000 items...
...moment what the attitude of the banks will be, but it will be a sturdy clerk who can stand up under the droves of old grads who, if they follow instructions, will place in his hands their watches, Phi Bete keys, straw hats, Ming vases and souvenir footballs. Mark our words, some innocent grad will be a final straw on the back of some poor teller and will say, "I'm Harold Sturver '17. I have here a valuable..." only to have the wicket slammed in his face. This sort of thing inevitably causes confusion...
...about over. There would be an end to the high times in the hostels in Kunming, to souvenir-buying where price was no object, to the calculatingly reckless battles with the Jap and the thundering return to the home fields when the battle was over. There would be an end to the fat checks from Major Greenlaw, the paymaster, and an end to the squadron parties where Major Greenlaw's glamorous White Russian wife presided...