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- From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
- Subject: Re: Dorothy Parker
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.002319.16110@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Summary: In good company
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- References: <1992Dec31.020828.15210@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> <lacesso.725817647@so-baptiste> <1992Dec31.174412.20470@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 00:23:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.174412.20470@news.acns.nwu.edu> mknapp@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Michael Knapp) writes:
- > Now that there have been a great number of quotes by Dorothy Parker
- >posted, could somebody please tell me who she is?
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- As far as I can tell, she's a famous dead person who said clever things for
- a living. She's chiefly remembered for her participation in the Algonquin
- round table, which was a bunch of people who got together over lunch to
- generate quotations.
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