Woollcott
Americannoun
noun
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Marx also shares memorable encounters with towering figures of the day, including critic Alexander Woollcott, the wits of the Algonquin Round Table, Howard Hughes and pianist and neurotic wit Oscar Levant.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2022
And the 1940s setting came to her after reading a collection of essays by Alexander Woollcott, a midcentury critic for The New Yorker, in which he profiled a series of prominent actresses.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2019
Woollcott knew her through Berlin, whose worshipful biography he had written.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 16, 2015
“One American can relish hugely the entertainment afforded when one quizzical Englishman chaffs his shy, ineloquent countrymen without expecting all other Americans to shake with laughter at the same spectacle,” Woollcott wrote.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2014
Mr. Chesterton was heard saying to Mr. Woollcott, "The time I mean was when Yeats was young—when mysticism was jazz."
From Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday
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