Word: souvenirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other night when Cora Walles and her brother William were finally killed and the house burned around their bodies, I cannot help resenting the reflections cast in your last paragraph on members of the posse slicing up the bodies of the dead negroes and taking them home for souvenirs (TIME, May 25). That part of the account is absolutely false, as the bodies were turned over to a licensed undertaker, who buried both bodies in the family burying ground on the place where the unfortunate battle between the members of the finest body of State Troopers...
Unlike surly, monosyllabic Joe Louis, John Henry Lewis is an affable, talkative young black who spends his spare time shooting pool or picking out popular tunes on a piano, prefers Y.M.C.A.'s to hotels, and, as a souvenir of an adolescence spent in the roughest company in the toughest mining towns of the Southwest, has apparently acquired no more vicious taste than a fondness for vanilla milkshakes. After last week's fight, his first in defense of the title he won from Bob Olin last autumn, Lewis refreshed himself at a soda fountain, retired to his training camp...
...first seven lines of an acrostic continuing through Florida East Coast Railway, this verse was written by one J. B. Killegrew and included in a souvenir booklet issued in 1912 during the festivities that marked the opening of the so-called "Key West Extension," the 128-mile over-water rail route to the southernmost city in the U. S. It was dedicated, as was virtually everything else on that occasion, to Henry Morrison Flagler, most brilliant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil partners. Having lavished his brains and his oil wealth on a Florida railroad and Florida hotels...
...month House Doorkeeper Joseph Sinnott took a last look around the bare chamber, went off on his vacation leaving the visitors' gallery open for sightseers. Last week Doorkeeper Sinnott returned from his vacation, peered up at the big gilt clock hanging just below the gallery, saw that some souvenir-hunter had made off with one of its two-foot hands. Indignantly the Doorkeeper locked up the House gallery until next session...
When they parted General Penaranda was wearing General Estigarribia's pistol. "I carried this weapon with me during the whole campaign, General Penaranda!" the giver explained. "On this day, General Penaranda, there is nothing better than to leave it in your hands as a personal souvenir...