Word: wonderfull
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A golf ball soared through the night. Stars twinkled overhead, night winds sighed as the ball landed, bounded, rolled up on a putting green unaccustomed to such nocturnal visitations. On the green, the ball moved steadily toward, was swallowed up by, a dark little shadow-the hole. No fairy-flight...
Mr. Grundy explained: "Gratitude for wonderful opportunities this country has enjoyed through the beneficent legislation of the Republican Party."
Professor Einthoven expressed himself as much impressed with the excellent and hard work that is being done in the laboratories of Boston. "You not only have the money but you have the men and their wonderful enthusiasm," he said.
"If I had gone to Harvard," he said, "it might have been a wonderful help to me, but on the other hand I might have come cut an awful sap."
Unto this misused and sorry setting, Mr. Purdy, the hapless author, has introduced a plot that is positively brilliant. He has to start with two main characters: Joe Bagley, who has a drygoods store and a tremendous ambition to write editorials for the "Glendale Observer", and Kenneth Dodge, who has...