Word: souvenirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since then the Radcliffe Maintenance men have adopted it, carefully setting it out every morning and bringing it back under cover when the day's work is done. Every admirer of the plant is jealously watched as a potential souvenir hunter...
Free cigarettes provided by Leavitt and Peirce, 21 cases of root beer furnished by Hires Root Beer company, and all the ice cream that you can eat will be distributed. All guests will be given souvenir pipes during the performance. All Freshmen will be admitted and upperclassmen are welcome as long as there is room. The doors will open at about 10 o'clock...
...Paris, Rasonski's conference with Napoleon was as brief as it was fruitless. Dzjunka's one interview with the Emperor lasted slightly longer. As a souvenir she carried away a jeweled smelling-salts bottle and a future son. Although Rasonski got a vast Polish estate out of it and married Dzjunka, the knowledge of her infidelity turned him into a Napoleon hater, a valued Russian spy; inspired him with the cunning strategy of tormenting his wife by keeping a close watch over her, repaying her rebuffs and infidelities with perfect gallantry (meanwhile sublimating his venom by torturing...
Even more money was saved by worried department-store owners and souvenir manufacturers. Forgetting their Princess' national trait of doing things thoroughly, but slowly, thousands of souvenir baby spoons, mugs, cups and porringers had been made, almost all of them marked "January 1938." Days passed with no news from rural Soesdijk Palace before which stood a silent crowd, forbidden by palace officials to shout, or even to stamp their feet to keep warm. Finally with less than 24 hours of January left to make the birthday mugs legitimate, the Princess' Princess was born...
When news got out eight weeks ago that the Democratic National Committee had sold souvenir campaign books-bound in leather and autographed by the President -for $250 each, and that some of the $700,000 worth of books had been bought by corporations, which are not allowed to contribute to campaign funds, Republican Representative Bertrand H. Snell naturally demanded an investigation (TIME, June 21). Last week, while Representative Snell's resolution remained securely pigeonholed by the House Rules Committee, the subject of the campaign books cropped up again, this time in the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce investigation...