Ringgold Wilmer Lardner stato un commentatore sportivo e scrittore di racconti statunitense, famoso soprattutto per le sue pungenti satire sul mondo dello sport, sulla vita matrimoniale e sul teatro.
“Are you lost daddy I arsked tenderly.
Shut up he explained.”
The Young Immigrunts (1920), Chapter 10, "N.Y. to Grenitch 500.0" https://books.google.com/books?id=9EdcsTyTQ7YC&lpg=PA265&dq=%22The%20Young%20Immigrunts.%22&g=PA278#v=snippet&q=shut%20up%20he%20explained&f=false
Preface http://books.google.com/books?id=U_xaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22A+good+many+young+writers+make+the+mistake+of+enclosing+a+stamped+self-addressed+envelope+big+enough+for+the+manuscript+to+come+back+in+This+is+too+much+of+a+temptation+to+the+editor%22&pg=PAx#v=onepage to How to Write Short Stories (1924)
