Word: bumpleigh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comeback, Author Wodehouse (now living in Paris) is not absolutely in midseason form, but perky as ever. Joy in the Morning is a chatty potboiler in the tradition of most Wodehouse works. Its setting is the familiar English hamlet of Steeple Bumpleigh; its characters include such Wodehouse fixtures as crocodile-toothed Lord Worplesdon ("he had got that way through presiding at board meetings"), twelve-year-old Hon. Edwin Worplesdon (a Boy Scout "who makes you feel that what this country wants is somebody like King Herod"), "Boko" Fittleworth ("a cross between a comedy juggler and a parrot that has been...
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