Word: lardners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan. Says he, "I am a poor but good Crowninshield." His father was a mural painter of independent means. As editor of the late, lamented Vanity Fair Crownie made it a lively canapé-service of contemporary taste, with succulent tidbits of Noel Coward, Colette, Dorothy Parker, Ring Lardner, Harold Nicolson, Edmund Wilson...
...head as superintendent. Both men were profoundly embarrassed about the situation; both knew it was just and inevitable. They respected and rather liked each other; only the nervousness of General Manager Oscar Sayers made their first meeting difficult. The dialogue among these three is as perfectly calibrated as Lardner, and at least as historically illuminating...
...subject matter in the mores of American journalism. One of the most inexplicable events in that profession is the case with which recognized experts in one field soon erect themselves into seers of knowledge in general. The sports columnists have led the parade to omniscience; first it was Ring Lardner, then Westbrook Pegler. Since the war began, Boston's own Bill Cunningham has been proclaimed the master of morale and the captain of the captions. Now Ely Culbertson, of all people, has blossomed forth with a peace plan...
...Haircut, a barber's monologue to end all barbers and monologues, by Ring Lardner...
...sports expert, he drove the experts wild. He once announced the wrong winner at the Poughkeepsie regatta, another time caused Ring Lardner, who sat near him while he was announcing a ball game, to observe that there had been a double-header-the game that was played and the one that McNamee announced. But he had a knack of being breathless, exciting even when describing the hills behind the Rose Bowl, and the fans loved him. At one World Series game, delayed by rain, he cheerfully draped his raincoat over himself and the mike and ad-libbed for 60 minutes...