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Excelsior! This motto applies to folks who dwell In Richmond Hill or in New Rochelle, In Chelsea or In Sutton Place. "Excelsior" also became a trade name for wood shavings used as packing material or furniture stuffing. In Bullwinkle's Corner, Bullwinkle the Moose parodies the poem in Season 2 Episode 18 (1960–61) of The Rocky and Bullwinkle ...
Excelsior Recordings, a record label from the Netherlands; Excelsior Brass Band, an 1879-1931 brass band from New Orleans "Excelsior", a setting of Longfellow's poem to music by Michael William Balfe
Loyd had a friend who was willing to wager that he could always find the piece which delivered the principal mate of a chess problem. Loyd composed this problem as a joke and bet his friend dinner that he could not pick a piece that didn't give mate in the main line (his friend immediately identified the pawn on b2 as being the least likely to deliver mate), and when the problem was published ...
Historically, the mock-heroic style was popular in 17th-century Italy, and in the post-Restoration and Augustan periods in Great Britain.The earliest example of the form is the Batrachomyomachia ascribed to Homer by the Romans and parodying his work, but believed by most modern scholars to be the work of an anonymous poet in the time of Alexander the Great.
Excelsior, Jr. is an 1895 musical comedy with music by George Lowell Tracy, A. Baldwin Sloane, and Edward E. Rice, and also with lyrics by Robert Ayres Barnet. After playing in New Haven , it debuted on Broadway to a great fanfare as the first production at Hammerstein's Olympia on November 25, 1895. [ 1 ]
Most of these poems parody the style ("chatty comfortable rhymes" that were "the delight of the enlightened bourgeois of the day") and form (alexandrine couplets arranged in ten line verses) of some short poems by Coppée. [7] Rimbaud published them under the name François Coppée. [8]
Cendrars was an early exponent of Modernism in European poetry with his works: The Legend of Novgorode (1907), Les Pâques à New York (1912), La Prose du Transsibérien et la Petite Jehanne de France (1913), Séquences (1913), La Guerre au Luxembourg (1916), Le Panama ou les aventures de mes sept oncles (1918), J'ai tué (1918), and Dix-neuf poèmes élastiques (1919).
Excelsior!, released in the United Kingdom as The Prince of Magicians, is a 1901 French silent comedy trick film, directed by Georges Méliès. [1] It is listed as numbers 357–358 in Star Film Company's catalogues.