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algonquin: keeping the demons at bay
The high spirits of the 1920’s. A circle of young, exuberant wits ( Robert Sherwood, Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker among them ) regaled Dry-Era America from around a hotel table and Algonquin Hotel and they were branded the “vicious … Continue reading
algonquin round table: fun with the pun
High Spirits in the 1920’s. A circle of young and exuberant wits regaled Dry-Era America from around a hotel table. Nothing quite like them has been seen since… …If insults were their favorite weapons for demolishing adversaries, or even those … Continue reading
algonquin hotel: wildfire with words
The round table at the Algonquin hotel. The high spirits of the 1920’s. Raring twenty-somethings and roaring wits. A circle of young exuberant wits regaled Dry-Era America from around a hotel table.Nothing quite like them has been seen since… …As … Continue reading
algonquin: case study
The forming of the Algonquin Hotel table round is formed. The chiefs take places… …In May 1920, Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and Robert Sherwood again found themselves together in New York, only this time they were without Vanity Fair. In … Continue reading
algonquin hotel: regaling Dry-Era America
The high spirits of the 1920’s. A circle of young exuberant wits regaled Dry-Era America from around a hotel table. Nothing quite like them has been seen since…. Conde Nast. Old school ethics meets the twenty-somethings of the Algonquin round … Continue reading
parker: hate songs and dance
The high spirits of the 1920’s. At a time when many disaffected intellectuals began taking off to ride out abroad what they regarded as an American cultural dark age, there was still many of the youngest who stayed at home … Continue reading
dorothy parker: asp like sting
The high spirits of the twenty-somethings in the 1920’s. A circle of young exuberant wits regaled Dry-Era America from around a hotel table. Nothing quite like them has been seen since… Dorothy Parker had come to Vanity Fair in 1915 … Continue reading
fast company: the algonquin crowd
The high spirits of the 1920’s. A circle of young exuberant wits regaled Dry-Era America from around a hotel table. Nothing quite like them has been seen since… Frank Crowninshield, the editor of Vanity Fair, possessed charm and a flair … Continue reading
high spirits in the twenty somethings
A circle of young, exuberant wits, Robert Sherwood among the, regaled Dry-Era America from around a hotel table. Nothing quite like them has been seen since… When Harding entered the postwar ( WWI) White House and Prohibition dried up the … Continue reading
the fifties: east side stories
We have been through trying times these past several years. The urge to look back on what is perceived as a ahppier, simpler time is naturally very strong. We tend to canonize the fifties as stable and reassuring, a Golden … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Lomax, Alger Hiss, Arthur Miller, Danny kaye, Dorothy Parker, Humphrey Bogart, lena horne, Leonard Bernstein, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, McCarthy with hunts, Olin Downes, Orson Welles, Pete Seeger, Red Channels pamphlet HUAC, Roy Acuff, Roy Cohn, Senator Joseph A. McCarthy
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