this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2024
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This would have been just over two months after the stock market crashed, marking the start of the Great Depression. Never before and hopefully never again will there be a better time to say this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Idk man, I feel like there were definitely a couple

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ootl -- who are those people, again?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dorothy Parker was a humor writer and Robert Benchley was a comedian. Both of them were members of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of New York-based artists who were very close.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

"very close"