Algonquin Round Table

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The Algonquin Round Table was a celebrated group of New York City writers, critics, and actors in the 1920s known for their sharp wit, wordplay, and influential contributions to American humor and literature.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural movement
literary circle
social group
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dissolved around 1929
fieldOfWork American literature
drama
journalism
theatre criticism
genre humor
satire
hasCharacteristic journalistic influence
literary collaboration
sharp wit
urban sophistication
hasPart Alexander Woollcott NERFINISHED
Deems Taylor NERFINISHED
Donald Ogden Stewart NERFINISHED
Dorothy Parker NERFINISHED
Edna Alexander NERFINISHED
Edna Ferber NERFINISHED
Franklin P. Adams NERFINISHED
George S. Kaufman NERFINISHED
Harold Ross NERFINISHED
Harpo Marx NERFINISHED
Heywood Broun NERFINISHED
Jane Grant NERFINISHED
Marc Connelly NERFINISHED
Morrie Ryskind NERFINISHED
Neysa McMein NERFINISHED
Noël Coward (visitor) NERFINISHED
Ring Lardner (associate) NERFINISHED
Robert Benchley NERFINISHED
Robert E. Sherwood NERFINISHED
Ruth Gordon NERFINISHED
Tallulah Bankhead (occasional participant) NERFINISHED
inception 1919
influenced 20th-century American satire
American humor
Broadway comedy
The New Yorker style
language English
location Algonquin Hotel NERFINISHED
Manhattan
New York City
mainSubject wit
wordplay
meetingPlace Algonquin Hotel Rose Room NERFINISHED
Algonquin Hotel dining room NERFINISHED
nickname The Vicious Circle NERFINISHED
notableWork Broadway reviews
New York Times pieces
New York World columns NERFINISHED
The New Yorker (indirectly through founding members) NERFINISHED
Vanity Fair contributions
significantEvent daily luncheon meetings
vicious circle gatherings
timePeriod 1920s

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Robert Benchley memberOf Algonquin Round Table
George S. Kaufman memberOf Algonquin Round Table
Alexander Woollcott memberOf Algonquin Round Table
Alexander Woollcott socialCircle Algonquin Round Table
Robert E. Sherwood memberOf Algonquin Round Table
Dorothy Parker memberOf Algonquin Round Table
Dorothy Parker movement Algonquin Round Table
Marc Connelly memberOf Algonquin Round Table
Edna Ferber memberOf Algonquin Round Table
Donald Ogden Stewart memberOf Algonquin Round Table
Harold Ross associatedWith Algonquin Round Table
Corey Ford memberOf Algonquin Round Table
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle mainSubject Algonquin Round Table
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle portrays Algonquin Round Table