Word: woollcotts
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...attended openings good and bad. He chatted easily with a cast of public people that included royalty and burlesque comics. Once given the choice between Lyons' 14-hour-a-day schedule or six months in jail, a group of wags-including Groucho Marx, Dorothy Parker and Alexander Woollcott-unanimously chose the clink...
...bottlefield, where columnists tailed their wags and reported puns the instant they were composed. When a Vassar girl eloped, Playwright George S. Kaufman announced that she had "put the heart before the course." Dorothy Parker confessed that in her own poetry she was always "chasing Rimbauds." Alexander Woollcott knew of "a cat hospital where they charged $4 a weak purr." Heywood Broun, drinking a bootleg liquor, sighed, "Any port in a storm." "The groans that greet such puns," claims Milton Berle (who once joked that he had cut off his nose to spite his race), "are usually en vious...
...account in 1918 of the execution of Russia's Czar Nicholas II and family. But Ackerman's greatest contribution was at Columbia, where he transformed an undistinguished school into a premier training ground for his profession. Journalism's best-known figures (among them, Walter Lippmann, Alexander Woollcott and Douglas Southall Freeman) came to lecture; working newsmen were brought in to teach copy editing, headline writing, editorial and magazine writing, and photography. The creation of a first-class newsroom gave students a sense of the pace and tension on a big-city daily...
However, I believe it is universally agreed and accepted that the Op-Ed page was the brainchild of World Executive Editor Herbert Bayard Swope, who placed the likes of Heywood Broun, Franklin P. Adams, Alec Woollcott, Laurence Stallings, Harry Hansen, Samuel Chotzinoff and many other greats on that page, including Cartoonist Rollin Kirby...
...fingers; the English hair and teeth, the cockney-of-the-walk intonations announce his presence in the densest lobby crush. In the past two years, the New York Times's Clive Barnes has become a public character, the most theatrical and prolific critic since the days of Alexander Woollcott...