Who wrote “Candy is dandy But liquor is quicker”?
Ogden Nash wrote the ditty in 1931.
In 1968, he updated it:
Candy is dandy
But liquor is quicker.
Pot is not.
Ogden Nash wrote the ditty in 1931.
In 1968, he updated it:
Candy is dandy
But liquor is quicker.
Pot is not.
Thoreau lived in his hut at Walden Pond for two years from 1845 to 1847. His account of the experience, Walden, or Life in the Woods, appeared in 1854.
Selma LagerlOf of Sweden was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909. She is known for such works as Jerusalem (1901-02), a collection of stories about Swedish peasant life.
The Broadway play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams was drawn from a screenplay called The Gentleman Caller, which Williams wrote while he was under contract as a screenwriter for MGM in the early 1940s.
The Mill on the Floss is the Dorlcote Mill, located in St. Ogg’s on the River Floss. It is owned by Edward Tulliver, father of Maggie Tulliver, central character of George Eliot’s 1860 novel, The Mill on the Floss.
The Hemingway novel The Garden of Eden, was published posthumously by Scribners in 1986.
His Family by Ernest Poole won the first Pulitzer Prize in 1918.