Word: excelsior
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Comments ranged from "Excelsior!" to "Pshaw." One high-ranking Administration flunkey said only, "Plunk yore magic twanger, Froggie...
Delegates did speak freely, but hardly fraternally. First off, when the Arabs saw that Israel had sent an official from its Foreign Ministry, they threatened to withdraw if the Israelis were seated. Conference officials scurried back and forth between the Arabs in the Hotel Excelsior and the Israelis across the square in the Grand, finally got a compromise whereby the Israelis would attend the conference as observers, not as delegates...
...happy medium in education without mottoing "Excelsior Dewey" or "Hi-Ho Science...
...pond ducks was splashing near an empty boat. "Want to see something interesting?" (He stepped over the seats and pointed to a small wooden box in the rear) "See that--eleven duck eggs! That's the mother over there--they're mallards. We put some excelsior in this box after she laid the first egg and now she's laid ten more. They take thirty days to hatch and if you come back here then you can see duck chicks right on the boat...
There he dazzled Neapolitans as his 45-car motorcade swept through the streets to the Excelsior Hotel, where soon two floors were redolent with clouds of the King's special incense and grey-and-purple-robed guards swirled through the lobby. The retinue includes a royal barber, two royal coffeemakers and a special guard with the title "Keeper of His Majesty's Jewels." Only woman in Saud's retinue is the Lebanese nurse of five-year-old Prince Mashur, whose arms are partially paralyzed from some disease or accident in infancy. The King brought the boy along...