Word: dunderhead
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...good," won Banker Pratt's ravishing daughter and died a noble death just in time to avert a happy ending. Chuckle production, still profuse, rests chiefly on: 1) The incongruous appearance of old family bywords ; 2) cretinous actions by the characters; 3) obtuse conversations as between one amiable dunderhead and another ; 4) childish horseplay with modern solemnities; 5) feints at coy indelicacy. If the reader at times identifies the author with his hero, that is because, in the funny business, the last, not the first, 100 years are the hardest. It is impossible to be a success at anything...