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On this day in 1931, Dorothy Parker resigned as drama critic for The New Yorker. The witty and sophisticated Parker symbolized the roaring twenties in New York for many readers. She was close friends with Robert Benchley, and Robert Sherwood, the managing editor and drama critic at Vanity Fair. The three became the core of the famous Algonquin Round Table – a group of newspaper and magazine writers, playwrights, and performers who lunched regularly at the Algonquin Hotel and tried to outshine each other in brilliant conversation and witty wisecracks. Parker was known as the quickest tongue among them and became the frequent subject of gossip columns. Today we have The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker by PRINCE from the album Sign 'O' The Times. Happy Friday!