#380 Dorothy Parker's Last Party
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
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Dorothy Parker's Life Changed Forever
Dorothy parker's first poem was published just a few months after the start of world war on. Her life would change forever when two men were murdered during an armed robbery in braintree, massachusetts. Two italian immigrants, nicholas sacco and bartolomeo vansetti, were convicted of the murders on scant evidence and a haze of anti immigrant sentiment. During a protest march, parker was arrested by the police and escorted to the station as those in an angry crowd screamed curse words at this new york interloper,. She eventually plead guilty and paid a five dollar fine. But she remained devoted to this cause, accompanying vansetti's sister to b
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