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...Ring Lardner...
...Blessed event," "phttf and "middle-aisle" by Winchell are too conscious to be slang; "whoopee," old when he first used it, is already obsolete. "Bugs" Baer's small Hearst column contains wisecracks like "ears like handles on a loving cup" which are the opposite of slang. Ring Lardner, who died a week after Sime Silverman, was usually careful to avoid inventions of his own, stuck close to the jargon of baseball. Columnist Damon Runyon mixes authentic underworld talk with invented freaks. Gelett Burgess' The Goops contributed a less valuable word than Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. George...
...perfect and "invisible" a projection of the narrative fact as a stripped style. But considering the atmosphere which contemporary writers have to re-create or be silent, it is probably the best available medium. For her mastery of it Mrs. Parker ought to be remembered with Ring Lardner. It is true that absolute objectivity, for all but the greatest writers, is an impossible attitude to maintain, and Mrs. Parker does not always maintain it. But by the time the reader becomes conscious that Mrs. Parker is grinning derisively at her characters as she writes, he realizes that he is grinning...
Dunster: Howard, l.e.; Hunt, l.t.; Alsop, l.g.; McGranahan, c.; Francis, r.g.; Scott, r.t.; Loomis, r.e.; Robertson, q.b.; Tew, Lardner, h.b.; Pillsbury...
Dunster: Lee, r.e.; Loomis, Scott, r.t.; Fancis, r.g.; McGranahan, c.; Alsopp l.g.; Hunt, Howard, l.t.; Lardner, Down Whitbeck, l.e.; Robinson, q.b.; Parker, Pillsbury...