Word: snarked
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...small-town Kansas girl, the spunky, snub-nosed daughter of a brakeman on the Santa Fe. At 16 she met a lanky young candid-camera bug named Martin Johnson, from the neighboring town of Independence. Lately famed as crew member on Jack London's cruise of the Snark, he was part owner of two nickelodeons-Snark No. 1 and No. 2. In darkened Snark No. 1 he abruptly proposed marriage. A few months later Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson started a vaudeville lecture tour, saved enough to head for the South Sea cannibal islands with a secondhand movie camera. Their...
...pattern: he was always broke, although he made a lot of money; he was always successful, always in trouble with women. Robbed right and left (he lent $50,000 to friends, could collect only $50 when in need), he sank $34,000 in his ill-fated yawl, the Snark, and lost $70,000 when a great house he built burned as he prepared to move...
...Five-year-old Snark: the 52nd running of the historic mile-and-a-quarter Suburban Handicap; by a nose, over Jerome Louchheim's four-year-old Pompoon; in 2 min., 1 2/5 sec., fastest undisputed time in the history of the race; at Belmont Park. Disgruntled was the crowd of 25,000 who had gone to the track hoping to see Samuel Riddle's famed War Admiral run against his old rival, Pompoon, as a substitute for the widely publicized $100,000 Memorial Day race with Seabiscuit, which had been called off earlier in the week because...
...Martin Johnson had risked many of the world's perils. A runaway at 14, he went to Europe on a cattle boat, returned as a stowaway, then shipped as a seaman on Jack London's Snark. Returning to the U. S., he married 16-year-old Osa Leighty, set off with her on 25 years of exploring, much of it in their own planes. Last week they were back from Borneo jungles for one of their periodic lecture tours. At Salt Lake City he remarked to newshawks: "America, probably because it is the most civilized place...
...Snark, on the which we might lovingly gaze...