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Happy new year, 196ers! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

ootl -- who are those people, again?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months 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] 1 points 10 months ago

"very close"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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.