The complete online text of Treat 'em Rough by Ring Lardner.

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (1885-1933), American writer, was an important literary humorist and the author of sports fiction. His stories are distinguished by a bitterly sardonic view of humanity. He has been called the "greatest and sincerest pessimist Ame...

Ring Lardner was one of the most admired American writers of the 1920s--praised by Virginia Woolf in 1925 as the author of "the best prose that has come our way" from America; compared favorably to Mark Twain, Jonathan Swift, Anton Chekhov, Bernard Shaw,...

Ring Lardner began his writing career as a newspaperman, first covering routine assignments for a local paper in South Bend, Indiana, then moving to Chicago where he was a sports reporter specializing in baseball. In many ways, his work always showed the...

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TERESA M. McALEAVY, STAFF WRITER The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 06-19-2007 Want a happy staff? Treat 'em like Buddha would By TERESA M. McALEAVY, STAFF WRITER Date: 06-19-2007, Tuesday Section: BUSINESS Edtion: All Editions Column: AT HOME OK, your company finally...