Word: excelsior
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Several times Italian authorities complained that the correspondents were too gay, made too much noise, stayed up too late, bought too much liquor. When they left Siena the Excelsior Hotel management presented them with six bottles of champagne...
...Brooklyn Museum is packing each item of its great Egyptian archeological collection-from tiny scarabs to half-ton granite statues-in jeweler's batting, sealing it with gummed tape, laying it in excelsior in a box, then in more excelsior in a wooden crate, which is again packed and boxed. Inca and other ancient textiles too fragile for shipment are being packed and stored within the museum...
...Langdon Burwell '41 of Porterville, New York; Clayton J. Clawson '41, of Madera, California; Dwight D. Taylor, Jr. '41, of Excelsior, Minnesota; Roger A. Cunningham '42, of Kent, Ohio; Roger C. Henselman '42, of Medford, Oregon...
...Anita Derby last February. At 8-to-1 were Texan Robert Kleberg's Dispose, big horse of Florida's winter season, and J. Frederick Byers' Robert Morris, a 200-to-1 shot in the winter books-before he outran half a dozen older horses in the Excelsior Handicap at Jamaica last fortnight...
Christopher J. Sotirakis '41, Clarksburg, W. Va.; Douglas C. Stenerson '42, St. Paul, Minn.; Robert B. Stokley '41, Galion, O.; Malcolm W. P. Strandberg '41, Tacoma, Wash.; Kingdon W. Swayne '41, George School, Pa.; Dwight D. Taylor, Jr. '41, Excelsior, Minn.; Elmer H. Taylor '42, Frederick, III.; Richard N. Thomas '42, Omaha, Nebr.; James B. Tobias '41, Fremont, O.; Hugh G. Voorhies, Jr. '42, San Diego, Calif.; John A. Washington '43, Clarksburg, W. Va.; Robert K. Weary '43, Junction City, Kans.; George W. Webber '42, Des Moines, Ia.; Richard L. Weinberg '43, Memphis, Tenn.; Emanuel G. Weiss '41, Elkins Park...