Word: gopher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. This novel has long needed a writer. In Ramon Guthrie it found one of more than ordinary skill. His aviators are grease-smeared, swaggering, circus-like performers-and not papier-mache heroes. Also he does for Berkenmeer what Main Street did for Gopher Prairie. One needs both hands and most of one's toes to count the significant characters in Parachute. As the spokesman for the author, the shrewdly-mad Sayles makes the following deduction...
...Americans do not have to work to enjoy life. They are densely ignorant of our writers, but have profound respect for a Vanderbilt. Europe has copied our worst things- the ugly stupidity of our iron civilization. She is sacrificing her originality to wear clothes like an inhabitant of the gopher prairies, to make Unter den Linden look like Main Street and elect a Babbitt Mayor of the Rue de la Paix. The English language is revered over here as Latin was in the Middle Ages. . . . America must not grow too proud. After all, we are a great country...
...Gopher Tundra...
...Gopher wood: The Ark was made of gopher wood, And in it were gophers two. If you should go for a gopher, The gopher would...
Suppose that Wisconsin decides it is time to drop Minnesota, all that will be necessary is for the Wisconsin paper to print the jail record of Joesting, Nydahl, Almquist, Hanson and Hyde. Or if the Gophers are getting tired of going to Madison the Gopher publication can print pictures of a flock of Wisconsin men pulling taffy...