Word: excelsiors
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...Cullinan (3,025 k); No. 2, Excelsior (969½ k); No. 3. Great Mogul...
...President signed NRA codes for furniture; garages & parking; fireworks; excelsior; asphalt & mastic tile; waste manufacturers...
...Mexico City this question was put last week by urbane, sardonic El Excelsior, newsorgan of Mexico's ruling class. "Here is a splendid opportunity for our infant film industry," declared El Excelsior, tongue in cheek. "A splendid opportunity also to effect that international reciprocity between Mexico and the U. S. that one hears so much about! What spectacle could be more imposing, more instructive or more edifying than a multitude of 7,000 blond men (supercivilized, of course) lynching an unhappy 19-year-old youth to whom had been attributed an ugly crime, the proofs of which were lacking...
...Herbert Bayard Swope,† chin pointed up, looked exactly like the youth that kept saying 'Excelsior' on his way through the Alpine village, only more earnest, fiery and brave...
Last week a box came to the Museum from Sir Robert. Shaking with joy, Director Currelly pried the lid off, clawed out excelsior packing, unwrapped a surprisingly small package on top. It contained one quite ordinary and worthless lead soldier. The box held an entire regi ment of ordinary lead soldiers.* Mystified and vexed, Director Currelly popped the regiment back in its box, returned it to Sir Robert without thanks. Observers deduced the mystery's solution: the Royal Ontario Museum had swallowed whole a British newspaper story that the army Sir Robert was sending was the Charles Sandr...