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
Circulation, which had been at about eight thousand in April, fell to a low of 2,719 in August; Woollcott, anticipating the end, asked that his name be taken off the list of Advisory Editors.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 16, 2015
Alexander Woollcott wrote that Fred Astaire’s feet and Gershwin’s music surely “were written in the same key.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2012
She had asked Mr. Woollcott to come, too, and Gerald Stanley Lee....
From Turns about Town by Holliday, Robert Cortes
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