Word: souvenired
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...About 30 years later rumor crept about that his grave held miraculous powers of healing. Fortnight ago the rumors grew and flew. From Boston, from all New.England, from the outer-States and Canada came the sick, the halt, the blind, the faithful, the curious; also quick-lunch vendors, souvenir postcard hawkers, trinket peddlers, troublemakers. From dawn to dusk, day after day, the slow-shuffling queue wound through the cemetery to the silent grave, heaped with flowers, surrounded with guttering vigil lights. Boston's Irish Catholic Mayor-elect James Michael Curley came with his son to kneel beside the shrine. Last...
...tambourines in the faces of prosperous looking passers by. Pious friends and drunken companions are all carried along in the careless hurry. Insistent boys thrust score cards into the hands of smiling girls. And the almost endless cry with the rythm of innumerable feet, "Get your favorite colors here,--souvenir of the game--." And so the curtain rises once again...
Diego Rivera was the most journalisti cally picturesque of the syndicate. He was assailed by the press, lampooned on the stage. Souvenir hunters put snapshots of him in their kodak albums with street beggars. Indians and other scenic curiosities. Undaunted, he works on. Today he is painting what will be the world's largest mural, in the Government Palace in Mex ico City, which will picture the history of Mexico from the Spanish conquest. Painter Rivera is often visited by English speaking tourists and keeps a U. S. assistant to interpret...
...divot cut by Bobby Jones disappeared mysteriously. Sleuthing officials found it in the hands of a lady enthusiast who had retrieved it for a souvenir...
...capital of Virginia was removed from Williamsburg to Richmond. The Gazette followed the government officials. Soon it began to lose circulation and prestige; publication became intermittent and finally ceased entirely, excepting for a three weeks' resurrection by the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce, when it was sold as a souvenir...