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It has been said that she died in harness. That expression of a plodder overtaken by death is inadequate for so gallant, so defiantly twinkling an exit. She was a boat that went to the bottom with its orchestra playing gaily.

Alexander Woollcott

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Alexander Woollcott

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Born: January 19, 1887
Died: January 23, 1943 (aged 56)
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