Dorothy Rothschild Parker (1893-1967), American humorist, was known for her biting prose and verse satires. Numerous critics expressed admiration for her unique talent.Born in New Jersey to Scottish-J...
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There was a time when it seemed that all things bright, clever, or malicious spoken in New York were ascribed to Dorothy Parker. That time was the 1920s, when wit was as plentiful as bathtub gin and, ...
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Dorothy Parker is known today for her three volumes of verse, Enough Rope (1926), Sunset Gun (1928), and Death and Taxes (1931)--not serious "poetry," she claimed--and two collections of well-wrought ...
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In the 1920s and 1930s Dorothy Parker, the pampered, yet feared, darling of the New York smart set, was the most quotable, quoted, and misquoted person in America. She earned this reputation by creati...
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A federal government plan for responding to emergencies will not be ready in time for the approaching hurricane season, officials have told Congress.The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which b...
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Sydney (dpa) - Thousands of volunteers battling forest blazes in
Australia's south-east corner received a timely Christmas present
Monday when snow fell on fires that over t...
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New York (dpa) - A small amount of extra peacekeeping troops for
Sudan's troubled Darfur region could be in place by October,
officials said Friday after a high-level meetin...
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Bogota (dpa) - Presidents Alvaro Uribe of Colombia and Hugo
Chavez of Venezuela met on Friday amid intensive talks aimed at
securing a hostage swap with Colombian rebels, wh...
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Myanmar Deputy Defense Minister Aye Myint said Wednesday that
the situation in Myanmar has stabilized since the junta's violent
crackdown on pro-democracy protests in September and warned aga...
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President Hugo Chavez promised to supply the oil needs of Belarus for years to come Saturday and dismissed Western accusations that former Soviet republic's leader is a dictator.Concluding his firs...
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It's every math teacher's mantra: Check your work. Apparently, Standard & Poor's didn't. The financial services giant, which analyzed data for U.S. News & World Report's inaugural ranking o...
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While his Democratic rivals campaigned in Iowa and New Hampshire, Sen. Christopher Dodd took to the Senate floor on Monday in hopes of pumping new energy into his presidential bid.Dodd, D-Conn., sp...
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MADRID, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Islamic radicals may have been
plotting attacks in Barcelona, Spain's Interior Minister Alfredo
Perez Rubalcaba said on Saturday, after police found bomb-making
material...
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The New York Knicks signed free-agent center Randolph Morris to a two-year contract Friday, adding the former Kentucky star to their roster thanks to an unusual provision in the NBA's collective ba...
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Dorothy Rothschild Parker
Dorothy (Rothschild) Parker
FEMA emergency plan delayed
