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Knickerbocker's

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  • Despite the intense competition in the city's hotel industry, analysts say the Knickerbocker's location is one of the best in the city.

    Knickerbocker Hotel Knocks Again Kris Hudson 2012

  • Among those present were Washington Irving, author of the recently published Knickerbocker's History of New York, with its delightful (and imaginary) tales of by-gone times in New Amsterdam -- including stories of old Dutch beliefs and customs regarding a jolly, pipe-smoking, gift-giving St. Nicholas.

    Louise Mirrer: The Invention of Santa Claus 2009

  • Other art adorning the place included sculptor Frederick MacMonnies' two electrified fountains, Charles Finn's "Masque of Flowers" in the Flower Room, and, in the Knickerbocker's cafe featured, a mural by western chronicler Frederic Remington "The United States Cavalry Charge."

    Dubai Is Good for Something! Brooks of Sheffield 2006

  • Other art adorning the place included sculptor Frederick MacMonnies' two electrified fountains, Charles Finn's "Masque of Flowers" in the Flower Room, and, in the Knickerbocker's cafe featured, a mural by western chronicler Frederic Remington "The United States Cavalry Charge."

    Archive 2006-06-01 Brooks of Sheffield 2006

  • Knickerbocker's book, so he gives it as his opinion that, "To tell the truth, it is not a whit better than it should be."

    St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 Various

  • Irving's, but "Knickerbocker's History of New York."

    St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 Various

  • "Knickerbocker's History of New York" was undertaken by Irving and his brother Peter as a parody on a book that had lately appeared, entitled

    Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans Sherwin Cody

  • She bought a manhandled copy of Volume I of Knickerbocker's

    Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

  • Thyrsis read this with consternation -- recalling that when the book had come out, not two years ago, "Knickerbocker's Weekly" had referred to it as a "preposterous concoction".

    Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

  • Thyrsis got new light upon the making of reputations, when he looked into the next issue of "Knickerbocker's Weekly".

    Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

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