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February 28, 1925

The New Yorker cover for February 28, 1925

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Cassandra Drops Into Verse

Dorothy Parker

We’d break the city’s unfeeling clutch And back to good Mother Earth we’d go, With Birds and blossoms and such-and-such, And love and kisses and so-and-so.