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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
Columnist
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Monmouth County
New Jersey
Dorothy Rothschild
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