Frank Perse was rale sot be down to Dover. He was a good deal of a man f’r Dover an’ f’r Strafford County; indeed he done very well f’r th’ State o’ Noo Hampshire; but when ye come t’ spread him over t’ United States he was a l-e-e-tle thin.
Wicked (musical) (Wikipedia)Wicked is a 2003 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman. It is based on the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, in turn based on L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film adaptation.
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Franklin Pierce (allthetropes.org)Yet another (and arguably the most) largely forgettable 19th-century president. Known as “Handsome Frank.” The lesser-known of the two historical namesakes of Benjamin Franklin Pierce.