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Posted by Joyce on 5/19/2025, 12:35 pm, in reply to "This Day in History – May 19"
1971 Ogden Nash, age 68 - US humorist, author and poet (Cricket of Cavador, The Bad Parents' Garden of Verse, A Penny Saved is Impossible)
Ogden Nash added the line "Await the girl who fassinets" to Dorothy Parker's original line, "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses." I looked it up because I knew he'd added a line to her famous line.
1909 The Simplon Rail Tunnel between Switzerland and Italy was officially opened
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