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Definition of Lardner
1. Noun. United States humorist and writer of satirical short stories (1885-1933).
Generic synonyms: Humorist, Humourist, Author, Writer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lardner
Literary usage of Lardner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1842)
"THE two following Reports, as well as the Report by Dr. Lardner on the 'same
subject, already published in the Reports of the British Association for 1838, ..."
2. The Career of Dion Boucicault by Townsend Walsh (1915)
"And now a word about the worthy Lardner.1 He was born in 1793, and his first ...
I find by the Dublin Directories that "D. Lardner" was living in 1818 at 12 ..."
3. Our American Humorists by Thomas Lansing Masson (1922)
"CHAPTER XX RING W. Lardner THE Saturday Evening Post literature has come to be
... And, among these, not the least is Ring Lardner. Mr. Lardner once told me ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"In 1828 Lardner had been appointed professor of Natural Philosophy and ...
However, Lardner went to the United States, and there made five times that sum by ..."
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