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Richard Armour

Born

in San Pedro, California, The United States

July 15, 1906

Died

February 28, 1989

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Richard Armour, a college professor of English who specialized in Chaucer and the English Romantic poets, was best known as a prolific author of light verse and wacky parodies of academic scholarship. He was a professor of English at Scripps College in Claremont from 1945 to 1966.

Armour was raised in Pomona, California, where his father owned a drugstore. He graduated from Pomona College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, then obtained his master's and Ph.D. in English literature at Harvard. He was a Harvard research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum library in London.
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	Twisted Tales From Shakespeare by Richard Armour, Campbell Grant (Illustrator) 4.15 avg rating — 331 ratings — published 1957 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It All Started with Columbus 4.13 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 1953 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It All Started With Eve 4.05 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1963 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It All Started with Europa 4.06 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1955 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Lit Relit: a short history of American Literature for long-suffering students by Richard Armour, Campbell Grant (Illustrator) 4.20 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1964 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	English Lit Relit: A Short History of English Literature from the Precursors (Before Swearing) to the Pre-Raphaelites and a Little After, Intended to Help Students See the Thing Through, or See Through the Thing, and Omitting Nothing Unimportant 4.40 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1969 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It All Started With Stones and Clubs: Being a Short History of War and Weaponry from Earliest Times to the Present, Noting the Gratifying Progress Made 4.02 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1967 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It All Started With Marx: A Brief and Objective History of Russian Communism, The Objective Being to Leave Not One Stone, But Many, Unturned, To ... Stalin, Malenkov, Khrushchev, and Others 4.03 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1958 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It All Started With Hippocrates--A Mercifully Brief History of Medicine 3.96 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1966 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Happy Bookers: A Playful History of Librarians and Their World from the Stone Age to the Distant Future by Richard Armour, Campbell Grant (Illustrator) 3.79 avg rating — 42 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: it said, 'goodbye”
― Richard Armour

tags: humour, life, money

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“Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.”
― Richard Armour

tags: politics

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“Shake and shake the catsup bottle. None will come, and then a lot'll.”
― Richard Armour

tags: catsup, ketchup

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