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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 ...
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 ...
Title page illustration for an 1864 edition of Tales of a Wayside Inn. Tales of a Wayside Inn is a collection of poems by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The book, published in 1863, depicts a group of people at the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts, as each tells a story in the form of a poem. The characters telling the stories ...
Excelsior, a book of poems by Alexandru Macedonski "Excelsior" (short story) , a 1948 short story by P. G. Wodehouse "Excelsior" (Whitman) , a poem by Walt Whitman
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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 ]
Satires of Circumstance is a collection of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy, and was published in 1914.It includes the 18 poem sequence Poems 1912-13 on the death of Hardy's wife Emma - extended to the now-classic 21 poems in Collected Poems of 1919 - widely regarded to comprise the best work of his poetic career.