Motto: live a fast life, die young and be a beautiful corpse (Irene L. Luce 1920 August 25)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/14/2012 03:35 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>On Apr 14, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
> > At 4/14/2012 11:41 AM, Garson O'Toole wrote:
> >> ...
> >> Here are some earlier instances of the general expression.
> >>
> >> Cite: 1920 August 25, Riverside Daily Press, Did Not Want to Be
> >> Bothered with Husband, [Dateline: Los Angeles, Aug. 25], Page 2,
> >> Column 4, Riverside, California. (GenealogyBank)
> >> [Begin excerpt]
> >> Letters from Mrs. Irene L. Luce, to Oscar B. Luce, won a divorce for
> >> the husband here today.
> >> "I can't be bothered with a husband," one letter said.
> >> "I intend to live a fast life, die young and be a beautiful corpse,"
> >> Mrs. Luce wrote.
> >> [End excerpt]
> >
> > I'd be more ready to credit the letter-writer if it were not Irene L.
> > but Clare Booth.  Or Dorothy Parker.
> > :-)
> > Joel
> >
>Well, if Clare Boothe Luce intended any such thing, her intentions
>were certainly thwarted.
>
>LH

Now, now Larry, don't be snide ... just which of the three are you
referring to?  (I'm informed she died at the age of 84, so it must be
one of the other two.

Joel

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