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Published: September 11, 2008
Wizard doesn't misplace modifying phrase
By Gene Owens
When the movie tornado hit Kansas in 1939, it whirled off to the land of Oz, taking Dorothy and Toto aboard. A headline in the Swayback Daily Kick reported that lives were jeopardized at Lake Eufaula "during a storm with seven women aboard.”

When it was over, the women were still at Lake Eufaula, and there was no wizard, no Yellow Brick Road and no Oz. The main things that were out of place were a pontoon boat an...

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