Word: dudeness
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Hangover in the Army. The dude reader first notes a certain irony in the circumstance that the solemn and formidable apparatus of U.S. scholarship has been turned loose on a man who was a great liar in the Mark Twain style and was always surprised if some pedant tried to ride herd on his maverick facts. Stratfordians have unearthed a great many variants- on the spelling of Shakespeare's name; Buffalo Bill's biographer rustles up 14: Coady, Cody, McCoady, etc., and Buffalo Bill probably could not have cared less. He might have resented the fact that Author...
Guestward Ho! (ABC), a series based on a book by Patrick Dennis (Auntie Mame) and Barbara Hooton, follows a New York family to New Mexico, where they open a dude ranch. The first episode was as dull as the wrinkled eyelid...
Guestward Ho! (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.). Premiere of a new series-based on the book by Patrick Dennis and Barbara Hooton-about dude-ranch life, always trying to stay with the Mame chance...
...late 1800s, Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane lived-until that mean coward Jack McCall plugged Hickok in the back of the head as he sat at a poker table in Saloon Number Ten. There Poker Alice, the gnarled old cigar-smoking card shark, fleeced many a dude; and there lived Deadwood Dick Clark, the legendary stagecoach driver who somehow always saved the gold from the badmen. Deadwood, it was said, was a place where "the coward never started and the weak died...
...flocks to summer pasture, kept wary vigil against marauding mountain lions. In the revived ghost town of Virginia City, cars disgorged Midwestern tourists to gaze at Piper's Opera House and Lucius Beebe's Territorial Enterprise. Around Reno, candidates for grass widowhood whiled away their residence on dude ranches. Along Las Vegas' gaudy Strip, vacationers pumped the slot machines and queued up for ten-course $1.25 lunches. And at a state convention in Hawthorn (pop. 3,700), Nevada's Democratic Party was practically taken over lock, stock and barrel by one of the most remarkable...