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...hand of fate." It is dark green, almost black, outlined in white with watery blue streaks running along the index finger. It looks more like a bay than a hand. To its right she put: "And in their death they commanded us to live." Then she wrote a poem. Its opening and closing stanzas are the same...
...been telling reporters all week that he'll beat Trevor Berbick, using mind over matter. He's even twisted that saying around into a cute little poem: "If you don't mind, it don't matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter," he always says it twice...
...brought with them the legend of an annually reappearing St. Nicholas, whom they called Sinterklaas. But it was not until the 19th century in New York City that this tall saintly bishop was recast as the jovial elf complete with sleigh and reindeer. The transformation, the result of one poem and one illustration, was the work of two unlikely men: a serious classical scholar and a political cartoonist...
Clement Clarke Moore, a professor of Greek and Oriental literature at New York City's General Theological Seminary, invented America's "Santa Claus" in 1822. Although opposed in principle to the frivolity of Christmas, Moore decided to write a poem to please his children. Inspired by his surroundings on a snowy Christmas Eve in Manhattan, Moore composed 56 lines on his way home from a market trip to buy a Christmas turkey. Moore's own sleigh and jingling bells suggested Santa's flying conveyance, while an old farmer friend, Jan Duyckinck, was reincarnated as the good saint...
...year brought you "Strolling Bowling" (bowling balls that walk) this year push "Goofy Golf" (correct, golf balls that walk). And every store in the city has "Tippee Toes," a doll that pushes a stroller. Actually, you push the stroller and she clutches it and walks behind. Complete with inspirational poem...