Editing Algonquin Round Table (section)

==Activities==
In addition to the daily luncheons, members of the Round Table worked and associated with each other almost constantly. The group was devoted to games, including [[cribbage]] and [[poker]]. The group had its own poker club, the [[Thanatopsis]] Literary and Inside Straight Club, which met at the hotel on Saturday nights. Regulars at the game included Kaufman, Adams, Broun, Ross and Woollcott, with non-Round Tablers [[Herbert Bayard Swope]], silk merchant [[Paul Hyde Bonner]], baking heir Raoul Fleischmann, actor [[Harpo Marx]], and writer [[Ring Lardner]] sometimes sitting in.<ref>Meade, pp. 76–7</ref> The group also played [[charades]] (which they called simply "The Game") and the "I can give you a sentence" game, which spawned Dorothy Parker's memorable sentence using the word ''horticulture'': "You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think."<ref>Herrmann, p. 23</ref>

Members often visited [[Neshobe Island]], a private island co-owned by several "Algonks"—but governed by Woollcott as a "benevolent tyrant", as his biographer [[Samuel Hopkins Adams]] charitably put it<ref>[[Adams, Samuel Hopkins]]. ''A. Woollcott: His Life and His World''. Reynold & Hitchcock, 1945. p. 186</ref>—located on several acres in the middle of [[Lake Bomoseen]] in [[Vermont]].<ref>{{cite web
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A number of Round Tablers were inveterate practical jokers, constantly pulling pranks on one another. As time went on the jokes became ever more elaborate. Harold Ross and Jane Grant once spent weeks playing a particularly memorable joke on Woollcott involving a prized portrait of himself. They had several copies made, each slightly more askew than the last, and would periodically secretly swap them out and then later comment to Woollcott "What on earth is wrong with your portrait?" until Woollcott was beside himself. Eventually they returned the original portrait.<ref>Hermann, p. 28</ref>