From; Not So Deep As a Well by Dorothy Parker

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea,
And love is a thing that will never go wrong,
And I am Marie of Romania!.

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Ms Parker lived with Dashiell Hammett in countryside New York at a house gloriously named “Wits End’.

She had an incomparable way with words.

When Calvin Coolidge, famous for his lack of oomph, died she asked;

“How could they tell?’