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“... splitting from McKelway, Brennan moved from hotel to hotel. She was ‘like the Big Blonde in the Dorothy Parker story’, Gardner Botsford wrote: she could ‘transport her entire household, all her possessions, and her cats – in a taxi’. Searching for an area in which to ‘settle down’, she tried Hudson Street, 22nd Street near Ninth ...”

“... years an artist, a writer and a musician are invited to create projects. The result of Cornelia Parker’s fellowship is Found (until 4 September), for which, in the spirit of Hogarth’s improving curatorial impulse, she asked almost seventy people, mostly visual artists, to submit objects or works. The distinction between the categories of found articles ...”

“... Ben Hecht, who wrote a book about the screenwriter Charlie MacArthur, who almost made a mother of Dorothy Parker, who wrote a poem about Fitzgerald and fell a little in love with him? From this chaos of possible connections there gradually emerges an excited, suggestive, almost musical evocation of the spirit of the time, something like the marvellously ...”

“... design by Norman Bel Geddes, and luminaries such as Arthur Rubenstein, Cole Porter, Ivor Novello, Dorothy Parker and Mrs Vincent Astor in attendance on opening night. It closed after a few snaggle-toothed performances. In Jacob Slovak (1923), the one de Acosta play to have some success (John Gielgud appeared in a short-lived London production), Mercedes ...”

“... De Acosta was wont to describe Garland’s stone-butch girlfriend of the 1920s, the hatchet-faced Dorothy (‘Dody’) Todd, pioneering editor of British Vogue and a heroic if sloppy dipsomaniac, as ‘the bucket in the well of loneliness’. * Enchanting tidbits like this last are everywhere in All We Know. (It might be subtitled And Then Some.) But the ...”

“... Sir William Beechey as a patrician lady of great estate. And at different times, she was known as Dorothy Bland, Miss Francis, Mrs Jordan, Mrs Ford, Nell of Clarence, Mrs James and Dorothée Bland. Amid such a plethora of images, her ‘real’ identity remains elusive. Indeed, as the long-term partner of the unmarried Duke of Clarence, who continued to earn ...”

“... Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Grace Kelly, Anita Ekberg, and models such as Lisa Fonssagrives or Suzy Parker. It is a look now coming back into fashion, probably because it owes more to art than nature. These faces are the most perfect of masks, using make-up to achieve a glittering factitiousness that recalls the wonder substances of the decade: plastic and ...”

“... a chill, and died the following January at Wallingford. A year after her death Max married Barbara Parker, who had worked on his archaeological expeditions, but died himself in August 1978. Ms Morgan’s main concern in dealing with Agatha Christie’s work is to tie it in with the life – which she does more than adequately. She says little, and on not much ...”

“... in Spain in 1593 and martyred in 1607, and Ambrose Rokewood, the Gunpowder Plotter, whose mother Dorothy was of the Suffolk Drurys. Thomas may be another of the turncoat Catholics who feature so much in the Marlowe story, but this is by no means certain. What he did after leaving university is unclear, since it turns out he is not the Thomas Drury who was a ...”

“... for success in his career. Leonard Read favoured the cashiered-major look patented by Cecil Parker in The Ladykillers: bowler, sternly-buttoned camelhair. He was a thief-taker of the old school; any form of rehabilitation for prisoners was ‘the biggest load of rubbish that could ever be devised’. An ex-boxer, he shared the pragmatism of the ...”

“... also at the National was interrupted by a young man who got up on the stage, sat down beside Jamie Parker, who was playing the piano, and started playing along with him. Jamie, more sophisticated than I would have been, recognised this as an instance of Asperger’s and gently ushered the young man off the stage.This is not to mention the several occasions ...”