Franklin Pierce Adams
Who is Franklin Pierce Adams
Franklin Pierce Adams (November 15, 1881 – March 23, 1960) was an American columnist known as Franklin P. Adams and by his initials F.P.A.. Famed for his wit, he is best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's Information Please. A prolific writer of light verse, he was a member of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s.
New York newspaper columnist
Adams was born Franklin Leopold Adams to German Jewish immigrants Moses and Clara Schlossberg Adams in Chicago on November 15, 1881. He changed his middle name to "Pierce" when he had a bar mitzvah at age 13. Adams graduated from the Armour Scientific Academy (now Illinois Institute of Technology) in 1899, attended the University of Michigan ...
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Franklin Pierce Adams Poems
- Erring In Company
"If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln."
- Theodore Roosevelt.
If e'er my rhyming be at fault,
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- It Happens In The B.r. Families
'Twas on the shores that round our coast
From Deal to Newport lie
That I roused from sleep in a huddled heap
An elderly wealthy guy.
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- To A Vers Librist
"Oh bard," I said, "your verse is free;
The shackles that encumber me,
The fetters that are my obsession,
Are never gyves to your expression.
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- Old Environment
I used to think that this environ-
Ment talk was all a lot of guff;
Place mattered not with Keats and Byron
Stuff.
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- A Ballad Of Baseball Burdens
The burden of hard hitting. Slug away
Like Honus Wagner or like Tyrus Cobb.
Else fandom shouteth: "Who said you could play?
Back to the jasper league, you minor slob!"
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- Fmjc225: no modern president should be on this this list you need to wait at least 20yrs to see the effect their presidency truly had. the list should be :
1 - andrew johnson
2 - james buchanan
3 - franklin pierce
4 - woodrow wilson
5 - john adams
- Sabaherdogan: 1953 – oskar luts, estonian author and playwright (b. 1887)
1955 – arthur bernardes, brazilian politician, 12th president of brazil (b. 1875)
1960 – franklin pierce adams, american journalist and author (b. 1881)
1960 – said nursî, turkish theologian and scholar (b. 1878)
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- Tonyannett: here’s an interesting article speculating that half of all us presidents suffered from some form of mental illness. some examples:
depression: james madison, john quincy adams, franklin pierce, abraham lincoln, calvin coolidge.
anxiety: thomas
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