Word: ringgold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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JUANITA DA LOMBA JONES Ringgold...
...late Ringgold Wilmer ("Ring") Lardner once listed what he considered the ten most beautiful words in English. They were: gangrene, flit, scram, mange, wretch, smoot, guzzle, McNaboe, blute, crene...
Left. By Writer Ringgold Wilmer ("Ring") Lardner: a net estate valued at $192,927.63; to his widow, Mrs. Ellis Abbott Lardner...
...Died. Ringgold Wilmer ("Ring") Lardner, 48, fictionist, playwright, sportswriter; of heart disease and tuberculosis; in "No Visitors, N.Y.," his home at East Hampton, L. I. Born in Niles, Mich., packed off to engineering college by his parents, he failed every course but rhetoric, did no better as a freight agent and gas company clerk, much better as a baseball reporter. After Satevepost readers had long guffawed over the frothy imbecilities of his "You Know Me Al" stories, highbrow critics discovered in him a painstaking artist with a phonographic ear for U. S. folk speech, in his enameled tales a gentle...
LOSE WITH A SMILE-Ring Lardner-Scribner ($1.50). More letters of a rookie ballplayer by the one & only Ringgold Wilmer Lardner...