Commodore Lardner is to supersede Admiral Wilkes in the West.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreign and Colonial Intelligence] Reference

History for 'Lardner's Cyclopaedia,' and a fourth series of 'Tales of a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Character] Reference

Thus said Lardner, in his Credibility of the Gospel.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference

Obviously the city of Portland admires Ring Lardner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ohio Leads the Way] Reference

If ever I were sick, I'd want a doctor from Lardner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enjoyment] Reference

Writer and director Donal Lardner Ward is set to adapt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s Shingle Announce Bevy Of Projects, Including THE WELL With Guy Pearce and Mary-Louise Parker – Collider.com] Reference

Note: "Shut up, he explained" is from a Ring Lardner short story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catholic blogger on the Darwinoids:] Reference

“Do you really compare Lardner with someone like Baudelaire?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half of Paradise] Reference

Lardner-Burke and Howman, using three hard-core criminal elements.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Ring Lardner said, 'It's OK, Terry, to write the way that you talk.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Terry Got Her Groove] Reference

Lardner did need to be truthful — so he wrote fiction, not biography.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Sport] Reference

“Lardner never wrote a decent page of prose in his life,” Wally said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half of Paradise] Reference

Remember, it was a ballplayer to whom Ring Lardner gave the name Alibi Ike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alomar In Context] Reference

The event marked the second time Lardner has been suspended from the party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip Lardner, British Tory Candidate, Suspended For Calling Homosexuality 'Not Normal'] Reference

In addition to his work for baseball, DuPuy is a partner at Foley & Lardner.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Ex-federal prosecutor working for baseball on Rose] Reference

Like Lardner, too, he is never completely disengaged from his characters 'lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sick Hix in Pix] Reference

"Higher Murrow" and "Lower Murrow," the critic John Lardner called the two shows.    From Wordnik.com.  [CBS: The Power and the Profits] Reference

“I just want to know if anybody can believe Ringgold Lardner was a good writer.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half of Paradise] Reference

“Tell me if you think Lardner could be compared with any French writer of worth.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half of Paradise] Reference

“I read Ring Lardner and Rudyard Kipling my last year in high school,” Avery said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half of Paradise] Reference

“Fur Coat and the World Series, The” (1922 World Series coverage) (Lardner), 79, 109.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Life in Letters] Reference

Most baseball fiction veers toward the maudlin, but Lardner had a horror of sentimentality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baseball Fiction For the Prose Hall of Fame] Reference

Lardner states that a solid, immersed in a fluid, displaces an amount equal to itself in bulk.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tangled Tale] Reference

Read Ring Lardner if you want to see the effective use of baseball slang in great storytelling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baseball Today and Tomorrow] Reference

Ring Lardner told him I was annoyed at him—anyhow its a sort of personal question as you see.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Life in Letters] Reference

Ring Lardner and Heywood Broun published baseball stories for adults in the early 20th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corrections & Amplifications] Reference

Lardner knew the players of his day, and he knew what an unghosted piece would truly sound like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Sport] Reference

Steemberger, so his father said, was close to Nicholas Biddle, Lardner, and others of the United.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Financier] Reference

Mr. Feiffer started out, some years ago, as the Ring Lardner of the urban, sub-intellectual inner life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sick Hix in Pix] Reference

The Lardner story, for example, was written for adults and first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.    From Wordnik.com.  [2008 October 18 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference

Per Melanie Phillips: This is what recently happened to the then Conservative parliamentary candidate Philip Lardner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Street Preacher Arrested in England for Public Statements That Homosexuality is a Sin] Reference

The collection's overall effect is to present the sports world as a con, one recognized only by Lardner and his wised-up readers.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Brief: Sports] Reference

Lardner never questioned the basic worth of spending one's time watching grown men play games, or the integrity of sports themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Brief: Sports] Reference

Leandra Lardner remembers being mesmerized by Hoop Dreams, the acclaimed 1994 documentary about two young men from Chicago's inner city.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Running down a dream to tell a player's story] Reference