Word: souvenirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hardly had Captain Bairnsfather finished his interesting and highly amusing lecture, when the platform was stormed by a misguided group of souvenir hunters fighting to obtain the cartoons which he had drawn during the course of his lecture. In the melee which ensued, the easel was upset, and many of the drawings were torn to pieces by these pseudo-gentlemen, supposedly engaged in acquiring culture at Harvard...
Introduced as the last resort of distracted librarians and disappointed the sis-scribblers, the Turnstile, though the only solution for a serious problem, has its more human aspects. Two hundred years hence, its humble metal may be the goal of souvenir-seekers, the present-day transatlantic aeroplane enthusiasts, who will fight for a chip of the swinging arms rubbed thin by the contact with many shrunken, scholarly paunches...
Republicans in Washington squirmed painfully last week when Robert Johns Bulkley, Democratic Senatorial nominee in Ohio, arrived in the capital with a souvenir of the G. O. P.'s 1928 campaign. It was a copper coin marked: "The Hoover Lucky Pocket Piece-Good for four years of prosperity." Declared Nominee Bulkley: "I'm here to get this thing redeemed, but it doesn't seem to have much of any value and payment has been refused...
...Manhattan home is many a souvenir of Arabian and Chinese voyages. Last year he and a party of friends including his son, John, were attacked by bandits during a trip through the Koweit Protectorate. A friend, the Rev. Henry A. Bilkert, was killed...
...what happened to her after the Coolidges came into her life. She was "a marked woman . . . shaken and wretched." Returning to The Beeches from her first conference with Mr. Coolidge, she found 18 photographers on the grounds taking pictures. Because she feared a public auction would attract swarms of souvenir-seekers she had to sell $5,000 worth of furniture to the Coolidges (who did not particularly want it) for a trifling sum. The telephone rang constantly (60 calls one hour) ; she had to have two policemen come to prevent curiosity peepers from stampeding the house and ruining the grounds...