Word: lardnerian
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Responsible for adapting life at a fight camp to the exigencies of radio is a fantastic, Lardnerian character named Frank ("Red") Dolan, who was a Daily News ace in the Golden Age of Manhattan tabloids. Boston-born in 1898, he groomed himself for his career by heading to sea at 14, driving an army truck in New Jersey during World War I. After the war, he traveled to the Orient, worked on Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Shanghai Gazette, also served on the Far Eastern Review...
...meets; pruning his technique down finer and finer; laying out, in patterns that grow increasingly simple and subtle, the terrific banalities that constitute life for the average Americano-that ubiquitous creature that no one ever sees in his own shaving mirror. Husbands and wives are the chief butt of Lardnerian irony, nor has he yet exhausted his variations on the subject. "The Love Nest," "Who Dealt?" and "Reunion" - all connubia- are the three best tricks in this new bagful, unless you choose "Haircut," wherein a smalltown barber unconsciously reveals his hero as a downright skunk. Most of the stories reflect...
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