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Word: jousters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1987-1987
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...years are on speaking terms again today, including the bride and groom." A corrosive reviewer, Parker once slated a hapless author as a "writer for the ages. For the ages of four to eight." She could be equally cruel to her nearest and dearest. When Alexander Woollcott, a fellow jouster at the Algonquin Round Table, recalled an afternoon of book signing with the smug rhetorical question "What is so rare as a Woollcott first - edition?", Parker replied deadpan, "A second edition." Presumably it was the memory of such moments that prompted Woollcott to term her "so odd a combination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brittle Nell THE LATE MRS. DOROTHY PARKER | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

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