Robert Benchley

This drink dates to the famed Algonquin Round Table of New York writers in the 1920s such as Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker.

Cocktails that complete me: Old Pal and Algonquin Jason Wilson 2010

Witty, urbane, cosmopolitan, and exceedingly well-read, he had been a classmate of Robert Benchley at Harvard and knew everyone who mattered in the New York book world.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

While vast segments of our society had nothing in common with Robert Benchley and no money for silver hip flasks, it would be foolish to think that they were sober.

CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

While vast segments of our society had nothing in common with Robert Benchley and no money for silver hip flasks, it would be foolish to think that they were sober.

CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

Generations of American comedians—from Ward and Twain to Fred Allen, Robert Benchley, Jack Benny, and Woody Allen—have based their entire careers more on their deliveries than their punch lines.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

The Algonquin was a favorite, of course, of the famed Algonquin Round Table, the "vicious circle" of Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Harold Ross, George S. Kaufman and other writers and critics.

Cocktails that complete me: Old Pal and Algonquin Jason Wilson 2010

The humorist Robert Benchley said there are two kinds of people: those who think there are two kinds of people, and those who don't.

Bridge 2010

Generations of American comedians—from Ward and Twain to Fred Allen, Robert Benchley, Jack Benny, and Woody Allen—have based their entire careers more on their deliveries than their punch lines.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

While vast segments of our society had nothing in common with Robert Benchley and no money for silver hip flasks, it would be foolish to think that they were sober.

CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

Witty, urbane, cosmopolitan, and exceedingly well-read, he had been a classmate of Robert Benchley at Harvard and knew everyone who mattered in the New York book world.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010