Quote: [Remark on death of Calvin Coolidge] How can they tell? (antedating Dorothy Parker 1936)

[victor steinbok]

I have a link to 1949 (apparently) Commonweal with the requisite Vassar version:

> But Larry was reminded of something again, this time of what Dorothy Parker had said when she said, If all the Vassar girls at the Yale Prom were laid end to end I wouldn't be surprised!

http://bit.ly/a4Cc8Y

No antedating of Wolcott's version (or any other, for that matter).

VS-)

On 7/17/10, Dan Goodman <dsgood at iphouse.com> wrote:

>> Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>>...
>> antedate 1934:
>> That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say no in any of them.
>> And there was that wholesale libel on a Yale prom.  If all the girls
>> attending it were laid end to end, Mrs. Parker said, she wouldn't be at
>> all surprised.
>>...
>
> To the best of my memory, I've only seen that as "If all the Vassar
> girls....."
>
> Dan Goodman

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