Hints and tips:
...I’m with American poet Dorothy Parker, or the lines sometimes attributed to her: “I like to have a martini/ Two at the very most/ After three I’m under the table/ After four I’m under my host.”...
...‘The Activist Leader: A New Mindset for Doing Business’, by Jon Miller and Lucy Parker Markets are not moral agents, nor are they inherently good or evil....
...“They lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles,” said Dorothy Parker wryly of the members of the Bloomsbury Group....
...Gillian Tett’s use of Niall Ferguson’s metaphor of human society as being either organised in squares or in towers (“A contest to control crypto is under way”, Opinion, June 25) reminds me of Dorothy Parker...
...Further to John Ure’s letter attributing the quip about the Bloomsbury Group’s “geometry” to Dorothy Parker (June 30), some say the full quote is the Bloomsberries not only lived in squares and loved in...
...Parker (“Another gloss on Parker’s Bloomsbury ‘bon mot’”, July 2)....
...Parker, Joseph Mankiewicz and Harpo Marx in the 1920s....
...“In the Thirties and Forties there were only exceptions — there could be one woman at the paper because she’s Dorothy Parker and she has her funny column or she writes those biting reviews and [slipping...
...The risk of inviting the poet Dorothy Parker, for example, is of being destroyed by a withering remark before the cocktails have arrived....
...Keith Jarrett’s playful “The Windup” gains edge, Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” a subtle extra beat and the lyricism of Stevie Wonder’s “Overjoyed” is retained....
...Dorothy Parker may have said “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy”. But typing while drinking was new for me and odd....
...Even for a skilled writer this is a challenging brief, and neither you nor I are Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde. And yet some of us persist....
...Writer Dorothy Parker quipped that the Bloomsbury set “lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles”....
...And is he going to like the writer Dorothy Parker, now tripping down the steep path in her equally silly shoes?...
...Dorothy Byrne, Channel 4 head of news, infuriated Mr Johnson’s team in the summer by branding the prime minister a “known liar”....
...Dorothy Parker once quipped that Katharine Hepburn ran the gamut of emotions from A to B. Martin Freeman’s range is even more economical: A to A....
...Noël Coward one day, Dorothy Parker the next. It’s an old-fashioned character-and-dialogue-driven yarn, Marielle Heller adeptly directing a whip-smart script based on the real Israel’s own book....
...Fancy a Dorothy Parker? A Noël Coward?...
...Dorothy Buxton, the co-founder of Save the Children, who defied national laws, pioneered universal child rights and created a great institution....
...Dorothy Draper, Decorating Is Fun!...
...A thesis in 10 case studies, Sharp moves chronologically through the 20th century, beginning with the inimitable wit Dorothy Parker, and drawing to a close with the formidable Janet Malcolm, whose work Dean...
...To my left, Dorothy Parker, to my right, Bette Davis, and underneath me, because I’m in his lap, Idris Elba. Who would you choose to play you in a film about your life?...
...It reminds me of the old Dorothy Parker line that every new generation thinks it invented sex....
...One is Dorothy Parker’s remark on being told that US president Calvin Coolidge was dead: “How can they tell?”...
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