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I just returned from a play that was written by some local writers and actors which consisted of vignettes of fictional scenes from the Algonquin Round Table. It got me to wondering just how many common expressions were coined by these people. For example, Dorothy Parker is credited with "One night stand," and I think it was Heywood Broun who coined, "Red baiting." What other common terms did this group of nuts contribute?
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Dorothy Parker--
Men don't make passes, at girls who wear glasses.
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When one of her friends announced imminent occurence of blessed event a month before actual occurrence, she sent telegram:
Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.
Dorothy Parker, telegram to friend who had given birth
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I can't resist adding the response from Ogden Nash:
A girl who is bespectacled
Don't even get her nectacled
But safety pins and bassinets
Await the girl who fascinets.
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Dorothy Parker, when notified of the death of President Calvin Coolidge: "How could they tell?"  From a book review: "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." Also from Dorothy Parker: "Brevity is the soul of lingerie."
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And one of the most famous theatrical quotes/axioms of all-time, from playwright George S. Kaufman: "Satire is what closes on Saturday night." hi Max! 
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well, we're not getting any more coinages, but I couldn't resist this probable repeat verse:
Life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporania;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
And I am Marie of Romania.
--Dorothy Parker
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And from Robert Benchley:
"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing."
"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing."
"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous."
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If all the sweet young things at that party had been laid end to end I would not have been surprised.
Just one more drink and I'd have been under the host.
TEd
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