" Ring Lardner thought of himself as primarily a sports columnist whose stuff wasn't destined to last, and he held to that absurd belief even after his first masterpiece, You Know Me Al, was published in 1916 and earned the awed appreciation of Virginia Woolf, among other very serious, unfunny people ", wrote Andrew Ferguson, who named it, in a Wall Street Journal article, one of the top five pieces of American humor writing.

To create his first book of short stories Lardner had to get copies from the magazines he'd sold them to — he held his own short stories in light regard and did not save copies.

According to a survey by Korn / Ferry International, Sarbanes – Oxley cost Fortune 500 companies an average of $ 5. 1 million in compliance expenses in 2004, while a study by the law firm of Foley and Lardner found the Act increased costs associated with being a publicly held company by 130 percent.

In 1828 Lardner was elected professor of natural philosophy and astronomy at University College, London, a position he held until he resigned his professorship in 1831.

Three major events are held at Lardner Park each year-the Farm World agricultural show, Trucks In Action and the Harvest of Gippsland.

" She had to get her comeuppance for being too strong in a man's world so they wrote a scene where she tried to fix breakfast ... and gets everything wrong ", said Lardner.

He corresponded also with Thomas Morgan the Welsh deist and moral philosopher, of very different views but who found Lardner impartial.

Ringgold Wilmer " Ring " Lardner, Jr. ( August 19, 1915 – October 31, 2000 ) was an American journalist and screenwriter blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s.

Lardner and Fitzgerald were good friends, and spent many an evening sitting out watching the continuous party that was Swope's home during these years.

James Lawrence Lardner ( November 20, 1802 – April 12, 1881 ) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.

In September 1861, during the Civil War, Lardner, in command of the frigate, took a pertinent part in the Battle of Port Royal and the capture of Forts Walker and Beauregard.

White also gained some recognition as a composer, publishing at least four songs ( such as bestseller " Little Puff of Smoke, Good Night " in 1910 ) with his co-writer Ring Lardner, who was a sportswriter in Chicago during that period.

Ring Lardner, Jr. was a screenwriter who was blacklisted after the Second World War as one of the Hollywood Ten, screenwriters who were incarcerated for contempt of Congress after refusing to answer questions posed by the House Un-American Activities Committee ( HUAC ).

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner ( March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933 ) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical takes on the sports world, marriage, and the theatre.

In 1913, Lardner provided lyrics for " That Old Quartet " for composer Nathaniel D. Mann.

Kanin was fighting in the war at the time, so the script was written by his brother, Michael Kanin, and mutual friend Ring Lardner, Jr. Hepburn contributed significantly to the script-reading it, suggesting cuts and word changes, and generally providing helpful enthusiasm for the project.

* Win for Best Original Screenplay ( Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner, Jr .)

* Mike Allen and George Lardner Jr., " Papers Offer Details on Bush Knowledge Motive for Stock Sale In ' 90 Remains Unclear ", Washington Post Sunday, July 14, 2002 ; Page A01

The script of the latter earned him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, but Lardner would later distance himself from the film due to the fact that director Robert Altman changed the script so much.

Blacklisted by the Hollywood studios, Lardner worked for the next couple of years on the novel, The Ecstasy of Owen Muir ( 1954 ).

According to Hungarian writer Miklos Vamos — who visited Lardner several times before his death — Lardner won an Academy Award for a movie he wrote under a pseudonym.

Whilst in Dublin, Lardner began to write and lecture on scientific and mathematical matters, and to contribute articles for publication by the Irish Academy.

Later that year he successfully sued Lardner for ‘ criminal conversation ’ ( adultery ) and received a judgment of £ 8, 000.

When Brunel was proposing to build SS Great Western for the 3, 500-mile transatlantic passage to New York, at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Lardner stated that: As the project of making the voyage directly from New York to Liverpool, it was perfectly chimerical, and they might as well talk of making the voyage from New York to the moon … 2, 080 miles is the longest run that a steamer could encounter – at the end of that distance she would require a relay of coals.

Lardner pronounced that the accident had been caused by lightning, which meant that Norris brothers were not personally liable for the accident.

Today, the best known of the Hollywood Ten are the writers Ring Lardner, Jr. and Dalton Trumbo, who was barred from openly working in Hollywood for over a dozen years as a result of his defiance of HUAC.

" Lowell's satires and use of dialect were an inspiration for writers like Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, H. L. Mencken, and Ring Lardner.

That Ring Lardner has a reputation today, for example, is because Perkins saw him as more than a syndicated humorist.

Swainson was overworked by Lardner, and both Swainson and MacLeay became derided for their support of the Quinarian system.

In 1956, Shir-Cliff edited a humor anthology, The Wild Reader, for Ballantine, including essays, poems and satirical pieces by Robert Benchley, Art Buchwald, Tom Lehrer, John Lardner, Shepherd Mead, Ogden Nash, S. J. Perelman, Frank Sullivan, James Thurber and others.

* 1993: George Lardner Jr., The Washington Post, " for his unflinching examination of his daughter's murder by a violent man who had slipped through the criminal justice system.

Ring Lardner, Jr. had high praise for him, saying of his performance as the star of Little Lord Fauntleroy, " He is on the screen almost constantly, and his performance is a valid characterization, which is almost unique in a child actor, and, indeed, in three fourths of adult motion-picture stars.

* 1915 – Ring Lardner, Jr., American journalist and screenwriter ( d. 2000 )

* Carmody, Denise Lardner and John Tully Carmody.

Nevertheless, all the distinctive Christadelphian doctrines, down to interpretations of specific verses, can be found particularly among 16th century Socinian writers ( e. g. the rejection of the doctrines of the trinity, pre-existence of Christ, immortal souls, a literal hell of fire, original sin ) Christian Thomasius ( 1704 ), Arthur Ashley Sykes ( 1737 ), Nathaniel Lardner ( 1742 ), Dr. Richard Mead ( 1755 ), Hugh Farmer ( at least in the account of Christ's temptation ; 1761 ), William Ashdowne ( 1791 ), John Simpson ( 1804 ) and John Epps ( 1842 )

The other elected members were: M. W. O ' Reilly ( Dublin ); Austin Stack ( Kerry ); Con Collins ( Limerick ); Seán MacEntee ( Belfast ); Joe O ' Doherty ( Donegal ); Paul Galligan ( Cavan ); Eoin O ' Duffy ( Monaghan ); Séamus Doyle ( Wexford ); Peadar Bracken ( Offaly ); Larry Lardner ( Galway ); Dick Walsh ( Mayo ) and another member from Connacht.

* 1885 – Ring Lardner, American writer ( d. 1933 )

Born in Niles, Michigan, Ring Lardner was the son of wealthy parents Henry and Lena Phillips Lardner.

The cousin, in turn had been named by Lardner's uncle, Rear Admiral James L. Lardner, who had decided to name his son after a friend, Rear Admiral Cadwalader Ringgold, who was from a distinguished military family.

Lardner never liked his given name and shortened it, naming one of his sons Ring Jr.

Lardner was married to Ellis Abbott of Goshen, Indiana in 1911.

His book, The Lardners, My Family Remembered ( ISBN 0-06-012517-9 ), is a reliable source of Lardner information.

Lardner was a grand uncle to 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner George Lardner, Jr., a journalist at The Washington Post since 1963.

In 1916, Lardner published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters by " Jack Keefe ", a bush-league baseball player, to a friend back home.

Lardner also had a lifelong fascination with the theatre, although his only success was June Moon, a comedy co-written with Broadway veteran George S. Kaufman.