Word: gobs
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...which seem to result from the failure of the author to think out his situation clearly. It is one of those tropical-island stories in which an untutored girl, brought up among the cocoanut palms, falls madly in love with the first young man she has ever seen, a gob landing from an American destroyer. How, one cannot help asking, did she attain her perfect mastery of correct English if her only companion had been a drunken beachcomber of a father, and where did she get the print dress that one discovers her to be wearing, after naturally supposing...