Search

Search results

Displaying 131 - 140

Edwin Arlington Robinson: Flammonde

FlammondeEdwin Arlington RobinsonThe man Flammonde, from God knows where, With firm address and foreign air, With news of nations in his talk And something royal in his walk, With glint of…

Edwin Arlington Robinson: The Master

The Master(Lincoln)Edwin Arlington RobinsonA flying word from here and there Had sown the name at which we sneered, But soon the name was everywhere, To be reviled and then revered: A…

Matt Robinson 2002 Deaths

Matt RobinsonAge: 65 television writer and actor who wrote scripts for The Cosby Show, Sanford and Son, and Eight Is Enough. He was the first actor to play Gordon on Sesame Street. Died: Los…

Anne Robinson, 2001 News

feisty game-show host and former London journalist, irritated both viewers and contestants as the host of NBC's The Weakest Link, the network's late-in-coming entry in reality television.…

Edwin Arlington Robinson: Calverly's

Calverly'sEdwin Arlington RobinsonWe go no more to Calverly's, For there the lights are few and low; And who are there to see by them, Or what they see, we do not know. Poor strangers of…

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson: Which

WhichCorinne Roosevelt RobinsonWe ask that Love shall rise to the divine, And yet we crave him very human, too; Our hearts would drain the crimson of his wine, Our souls despise him if he…

Brewer's: Brown, Jones, and Robinson

Three Englishmen who travel together Their adventures were published in Punch, and were the production of Richard Doyle. They typify the middle-class English abroad; and hold up to…

Brewer's: Swiss Family Robinson

An abridged translation of a German tale by Joachim Heinrich Kampe, tutor to Baron Humboldt. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894SwithinSwiss Boy A B C D E…

William Smokey Robinson Biography

William “Smokey” Robinsonsinger, songwriterBorn: 2/19/1940Birthplace: Detroit Grammy Award-winning singer and song-writer known for his falsetto voice and as a premier song-writer with more than 4,…

Holly Robinson Peete Biography

Holly Robinson Peete (Holly Robinson)actressBorn: 9/18/1964Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The daughter of Sesame Street's original Gordon, this actress came to notice in her various…