Word: varmint
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...chief varmint of all, as Jake saw it, was a brash little guy with a quick trigger finger. His name was Bobby Riggs, twice world's professional tennis champion, and he was always yammering that Bobby Riggs was the world's greatest tennis star. Jake guessed he would have to go gunning for Bobby some...
Owen Johnson has been married five times, has written three classics (The Varmint, The Tennessee Shad, Stover at Yale), has worked for the Republican National Committee (1920), the Democratic National Committee (1928), has ten times won the gentleman farmers' exhibit of fruit, vegetables and flowers at the Stockbridge, Mass. Grange Fair. Last week his first public office sought him. To his swank Stockbridge home trooped several hundred neighbors headed by Harvard Instructor William Ellery Sedgwick, nephew of venerable Editor Ellery Sedgwick of the Atlantic Monthly. Tumbling their words excitedly together, they asked 58-year-old Novelist Johnson to become...
...thousands & thousands of U. S. novel readers Lawrenceville is still the harum-scarum little preparatory school of the 1890's about which Alumnus Owen Johnson wrote in The Varmint and Tin Tennessee Shad. Unforgettable are sue) redoubtable characters as Dink Stover Doc Mcnooder, The Prodigious Hickey Flash Condit, Turkey Reiter, The Triumphant Egghead-a lusty lot, forever up to highjinks, forever bedevilling their masters...
...Spraggs, Pa., last week, a doughty company of huntsmen sat down to a dinner of chicken pie. It was the banquet tendered by the losers to the winners of one of Greene County's immemorial varmint-hunts. Useful, unique, the latest Greene County hunt was last week described by one who knows Greene County (John H. Day of the Washington, Pa., Observer) as follows...
When final scores are told off at the end of the hunting period the corpses of birds and the tails of rats and mice are heaped into a pyre, gasoline is thrown over the whole and the hunters dance a war dance about their kill as flames cremate the varmint carcasses. One enthusiastic rat hunter tells of a perfect day during which his party made away with 160 rats...