How I long for Alice Roosevelt Longworth to be still alive to go after TSF.

[no_hypocrisy]

“If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.”

“My father (Theodore Roosevelt) always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral,
the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.”

“My specialty is detached malevolence.”

"Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit."

(To Joe McCarthy): "The truckman, the trashman and the policeman on the block may call me Alice but you may not."

and another voice to the chorus: Dorothy Parker

When Dorothy Parker heard that Calvin Coolidge was dead, she remarked cruelly, “How can they tell?”

[bucolic_frolic]

1. No wonder Archie Bunker idolized Coolidge.

Those writers really did their research and thinking.

[paleotn]

2. And the mention of Herbert Hoover in the opening song.

Hoover? Dear god. Dad would roll his eyes and say something snarky whenever he heard the opening credits.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Thanks for the correction

I thought it was Coolidge in the intro. My memory is going halcyon.

[paleotn]

17. Not my intention. I figured he like Coolidge too!

[mountain grammy]

3. Haha 😂

Would love to have that first one on a t shirt. Alice was something else!

Dorothy Parker was a hero in my book. Never got it wrong.

[Martin Eden]

5. I miss the wit and wisdom of Molly Ivins

She would know how to skewer the orange felon.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Love her too, but

not as caustic and cut-to-the-bone as Alice Longworth.

[Martin Eden]

8. Different flavors

All delicious.

[erronis]

12. Mmmmm. Love the smell of fried green tomatoes in the morning....

[niyad]

7. Absolutely LOVE Alice and Dorothy!!! And Molly!!!

[struggle4progress]

9. Alice Blue Gown

[erronis]

13. "Alice Blue Gown"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Blue_Gown

"Alice Blue Gown" is a popular song written by Joseph McCarthy and Harry Tierney. The song, which was inspired by Alice Roosevelt Longworth's signature gown, was first performed by Edith Day in the 1919 Broadway musical Irene.[1] In 1920 the song was recorded and released.[2]

Artists who have recorded the song include Duke Ellington, Kate & Anna McGarrigle with Lily Lanken & Rufus Wainwright, Glenn Miller, Wayne King, Frank Sinatra, Chet Atkins, and Lenny Breau. Carol Burnett sang the song as a spoof while wearing a fatsuit for the opening number of the March 29, 1975 episode of her eponymous variety show.[3][4][5] Liza Minnelli, daughter of Judy Garland, sang it on her mother's Christmas show in December 1963.[6]

The song is about Irene's favourite dress which she wore until it was worn out, and begins:[7]

I once had a gown it was almost new
Oh, the daintiest thing, it was sweet Alice Blue

Lyrics - https://www.allmusicals.com/lyrics/irene/alicebluegown.htm

[NNadir]

10. She was extremely hard on my favorite Democrat of all time, her cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt, but yes...

...her cutting wit would do well with that ignorant witless moron orange thing in the White House.

[no_hypocrisy]

11. My estimation of ARL is that TSF wouldn't scare her a bit.

If anything, she'd terrify him -- and just by living in DC with him.

[NNadir]

15. One of my favorite TR quotes concerned her. It may be a slight paraphrase but it went like this:

"I can do one of two things. I can run the country or I can manage Alice. I can't do both."

She was a character.

[no_hypocrisy]

16. Try to find a bio of her.

She was truly a wild ride.

Had a daughter out of wedlock with a republican and attempted to name her after him.

[Gimpyknee]

14. You missed a good one attributed to the acerbic Alice Roosevelt Longworth:

“He looks like he was weaned on a pickle”.

Trump? Stephen Miller? Pete Hegseth?