A WRITER'S WIT: DOROTHY PARKER

Mrs. Parker had a rooted aversion to [A. A.] Milne in all his pastel moods and a little history to go with it. In 1928 she had been required—in her capacity as “Constant Reader”—to review his latest offering, a book called The House at Pooh Corner, in which Piglet asks Pooh why he has added the phrase “Tiddely-pom” to a song, and Pooh answers, “To make it more hummy.”
 
Parker responds:
And it is that word “hummy,” my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weeder frowed up.*
Dorothy Parker
Author of "Big Blonde" [short story]
Born August 22,  1893

*Barry Day, Editor, Dorothy Parker: In Her Own Words

D. Parker

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