Word: souveniring
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...messages of congratulation as they poured in from rulers, statesmen, educators and dignitaries in the four corners of the world. Ready for the diners' inspection were nine of the ten extant oil-paintings (among them an Orpen, a La very, a Salisbury*) of the man they were honoring. Elaborate souvenir programs and menus were printed. Two dollar Wedgwood plates depicting Columbia scenes were to be distributed to each & every guest. New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning would bless their food. President James Rowland Angell of Yale University. Author John Erskine (Columbia, 1900). Chief Judge Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (Columbia...
...President Hoover ready to act. Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board was with him at the time. Slowly, carefully, a little larger than usual, the President wrote his name at the bottom of H. J. R. 147, smilingly handed the pen over to Mr. Meyer as a souvenir. To the country at large the President declared...
...Rosa Ponselle's penthouse apartment a pair of blue & gold portieres hang as souvenir of the second stage of her career. They are a part of the cyclorama used by the Ponzillo sisters (Carmela & Rosa) in vaudeville. Carmela had gone to New York ahead of Rosa, worked as a cloak model and sung in a cabaret. She and Rosa were engaged for their sister act when they had no money left, no clothes except their street suits. When they arrived at the theatre for their first turn, the manager protested about their clothes. They told a cock-&-bull story about...
...hear them. His arms fell abruptly to his sides. The orchestra stopped playing, watched him stride furiously backstage. Chuckles subsided amid hisses. Silence followed. Then, in order to fetch Stokowski, the audience decided to clap. No further rude behavior interrupted Mosolow's Soviet Iron Foundry, a bombastic souvenir of Stokowski's recent Russian visit, or Abraham Lincoln, a rambling panegyric by Robert Russell Bennett, a Kansas City native...
...them on President Hoover's desk last week. Curious visitors saw that they were inning-by-inning returns from the World Series baseball games in St. Louis. For the third game the President trained to Philadelphia, threw in the first ball (and got it back as a souvenir), watched the St. Louis Cardinals (National League) whip the Philadelphia Athletics (American League). Not till the game was over did he learn of the sudden death of Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow (see below), though thousands of radio listeners heard Graham McNamee interrupt his play by play description of the game...