Word: varmint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Owen McMahon Johnson, novelist (The Tennessee Shad, The Varmint, Stover at Yale, Children of Divorce), announced last week (apropos his latest novel, Sacrifice): "Second marriages are happier than first marriages. The new form of divorce-I call it 'amicable divorce'-is on a friendlier basis and much easier on the children...
...They fired me for bringing in a couple of rattlesnakes and-and assaulting a teacher."-THE VARMINT, by Owen Johnson...
...rumor was true. The Old Boys had heard aright. The Varmint is an anachronism and, to Old Boys' despair, the comment of Headmaster Horace D. Taft of the Taft School only emphasized whither the schools are listing. Said Headmaster Taft: "The modern boy is as good as his predecessors. The only trouble is that he needs to be about ten times as good...
...Prince shall build anew. . . . It is entertaining fiction to read on an idle evening, despite the author's constant sermonizing on the evils of divorce. If Owen Johnson, storyteller, would oust Owen Johnson, moralist, from his works, he might resurrect the fame that was his for The Varmint, The Tennessee Shad, Stover at Yale...
Married. Helen Menken,* able 26-year-old U. S. actress (The Seventh Heaven, The Makropoulos Secret) ; to Actor Humphrey Bogart, 26 (Up the Ladder, Nerves, Cradle Snatchers) ; in Manhattan, after taking out a marriage license in . 1922. Married. Miss Katharine Duchatel Johnson, daughter of famed novelist Owen Johnson (The Varmint, Stover at Yale, etc.) ; to one William E. Kugeman Jr., in Manhattan...