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[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?

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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
Columnist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Screenwriter
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Monmouth County
New Jersey
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