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Franklin Pierce Adams 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.

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A Ballad of Baseball Burdens
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Those Two Boys
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
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Vain Words
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How Do You Tackle Your Work
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Bon Voyage - And Vice Versa
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So Shines a Good Deed in a Naughty World
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An Ode In Time of Inauguration
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The Higher Education
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Rich Man
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Baseball's Sad Lexicon
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On First Looking into Bee Palmer's Shoulders
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On the Importance of Being Earnest
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Recuerdo
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The Last Laugh
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It Was a Famous Victory
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Advising Chloë
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A New York Child's Garden of Verses
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Ballade of Ancient Acts
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If the Advertising Man Had Been Gilbert
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The Shepherd's Resolution
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Unshackled Thoughts on Chivalry, Romance, Adventure, Etc.
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To a Vers Librist
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The Jazzy Bard
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The Doughboy's Horace
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