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Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
Death and Taxes, a 1931 poetry collection by Dorothy Parker; Death and Taxes, the 1941 debut novel by David F. Dodge; Death and Taxes, a 1967 novel by Thomas B. Dewey; Death and Taxes, a 1976 book by Hans Sennholz; Death and Taxes, a 1990 comic by Frank Miller; see Give Me Liberty
After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared on 11 December 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades.
Lord Peter Wimsey and his friend Chief Inspector Parker hear about the death, in late 1925, of an elderly cancer sufferer named Agatha Dawson who was being cared for by her great-niece Mary Whittaker. Miss Dawson had an aversion to making a will and believed that, if she died without one, Miss Whittaker, her only known relative, would ...
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Edgar Lee Masters, Jack Kelso: A Dramatic Poem [14] Joseph Moncure March, "The Wild Party" Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Buck in the Snow [14] Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun [14] Ezra Pound: Selected Poems, edited by T. S. Eliot, London, [15] American poet living in Europe; A Draft of the Cantos 17–27 [14] Edward Arlington Robinson, Sonnets, 1889 ...
Dorothy Parker wrote the poem "Ninon De L'Enclos On Her Last Birthday" and also referred to Ninon in another of her poems, "Words Of Comfort To Be Scratched On A Mirror". L'Enclos is the eponymous heroine of Charles Lecocq 's 1896 opéra comique, Ninette .
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