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Word: dunderhead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...husband's Cornish estate. She is assisted in her intrigue by one of those button-mouthed little men-servants whose lines, always the wittiest in the play, terminate in a dry "my lady." With the pirate, Dona forgets her inept domesticity in a mischievous piratical foray against her dunderhead neighbors, and in the 17th-Century equivalent of a long weekend at Atlantic City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bull's-Eye for Bovarys | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

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