Alexander Woollcott
Alexander Woollcott
Alexander Humphreys Woollcottwas an American critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine and a member of the Algonquin Round Table...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth19 January 1887
CityRed Bank, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
american-critic good mind perhaps
At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.
marriage bed companion
It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue."
illegal-things fattening illegal
Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
art miracle oscars
There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.
baby government hats
Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.
war sight cities
Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: "Is there no speed limit in this mad city?""Oh, yes, monsieur," she answered sweetly over her shoulder, "but no one has ever succeeded in reaching it.
writing men good-man
I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf.
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Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking...
sarcastic ships sinking
She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.
running men fortune
A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.
law long lawyer
One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.
departed luck
His huff arrived and he departed in it.
miracle personality oscars
There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.
cities causes chicago
Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.