Word: varmint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. For the fifth time, Owen Johnson, famed novelist (The Varmint, Stover at Yale, etc.), to the sometime Miss Gertrude H. Bovee of Manhattan, successively the wife of Hugh Mackay and of John A. Le Boutillier, who died in 1924; at Manhattan. Author Johnson's first wife, Miss Mary Gait Stockley of Lake wood, N. J., married him in 1901 and died in 1911. He married a singer, "Mme. Cobina" (Miss Esther Cobb), in 1912, but shortly afterwards they were divorced and he married Miss Cecile Denis de Lagarde, who died in 1918. In 1921 he married Miss Catharine...
...antediluvian phenomena since the jovial Phillips Brooks House reception. Still I feel sure that if Dean Whitney had for two long weeks, day and night, been submitted to the none too tender mercies of those pertinacious individuals who swarm around the Freshman dormitories with pressing contracts from 'The Varmint' and "The Varlet,' he would either give the innocent victims some advice on how to avoid them, or, realizing the futility of doing this, he should adopt some plan whereby our suffering, if not eliminated, would be shortened...
...pleasant, somewhat detached gentleman who looks at life with the eyes of a reporter, yet lives, himself?a most difficult feat, and one which those cursed with too much sense of humor cannot accomplish. Yet there is no denying Mr. Johnson's sense of humor ?witness The Varmint, The Tennessee Shad, the later Skippy Bedelle...
...Bootlegger remained, best of all best dogs. Said W. A. Davenport, critic: "He is a corky little chap, with a varmint expression, and his name is Barberryhill Bootlegger. He is the property of Bayard Warren and was born in the Barbary Hills Kennels, Pride Crossing, Mass., on Dec. 21, 1920. His mother was Western Wistful, a lady of great distinction and considerable social prominence. His father was Barberryhill Gin Rickey, an alcoholic champion whose son inherits his liberal ideas, as you can see by the name...
Germany, like "The Varmint", will never allow its neighbors to become bored. Not content with assuming the financial obligations of half the world, the Germans have decided to dig a little deeper into their pockets and their Fatherland. Having stumbled on an odd billion or so (marks not dollars), they have, according to an Associated. Press dispatch, organized a canal corporation at Munich to construct a two thousand mile waterway by joining the Rhine, the Main and the Danube. The engineering details will tax the German imagination as much as the Allied Reparation Demands will tax their pocket books...