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Armour was born in [[San Pedro, Los Angeles, California]] the only child of Harry W. and Sue Wheelock Armour. His father was a [[Dispensing chemist|druggist]], and Armour's autobiographical ''Drug Store Days'' recalls his childhood in both San Pedro and Pomona. He attended [[Pomona College]] and [[Harvard University]], where he studied with the eminent Shakespearean scholar [[George Lyman Kittredge]] and obtained a Ph.D. in English [[philology]]. He was married to Kathleen Stevens and they had two children, Geoffrey and Karin, and he eventually became Professor of English at [[Scripps College]] and the [[Claremont Graduate School]] in [[Claremont, California]]. In 1968, Armour was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) degree from [[Whittier College]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.whittier.edu/alumni/poetnation/honorary|title=Honorary Degrees {{!}} Whittier College|website=www.whittier.edu|access-date=2020-02-27}}</ref>
In his early career he focused on serious literature, publishing (in 1935) a biography of the lesser English poet [[Bryan Waller Procter]] and in 1940, co-editing (with [[Raymond F. Howes]]) a series of observations by contemporaries about Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ''Coleridge the Talker''. Virginia Woolf cited this work in an essay stating, "Two pious American editors have collected the comments of this various company [Coleridge's acquaintances], and they are, of course, various. Yet it is the only way of getting at the truth—to have it broken into many splinters by many mirrors and so select."<ref>Virginia Woolf, [http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91d/chap15.html "The Man at the Gate" (1945 essay)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821175843/http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91d/chap15.html |date=2008-08-21 }}, in ''The Death of the Moth, and other Essays'', 1961</ref>
Armour wrote humorous poems—[[light verse]]—in a style reminiscent of [[Ogden Nash]]. These poems were often featured in newspaper Sunday supplements in a feature called ''Armour's Armory''. Many of Armour's poems have been repeatedly and incorrectly attributed to Nash. Probably Armour's most-quoted poem (often incorrectly attributed to Nash) is the quatrain: ''"Shake and shake / the catsup bottle / none will come / and then a lot'll."'' Another popular quatrain of his, also usually attributed erroneously to Nash, is: ''"Nothing attracts / the mustard from wieners / as much as the slacks / just back from the cleaners."''
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