Word: dudeness
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...dogs, a parrot and a monkey, all living in peace and harmony in the garret. ... I went to the Dime Museum so often that I could have taken the place of the announcer as he described the India-rubber man; Jojo. the dog-faced boy; Professor Coffey, the skeleton dude...
Died. Silvester Hendershot, 82, ''Wild Man of Borneo," for 20 years with the Ringling circus; in the county poorhouse at Platteville, Wis. Once the town dude, he let his wavy hair grow until it reached his waist and practiced making faces until he got a circus job. Barnum's original "Wild Men of Borneo," the brothers Plutano and Wano, who were reputed to have been captured on the island of Borneo and who never learned to speak English, died...
Marcellus Hartley Dodge Jr., 19, junior at Princeton, grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller, is spending his summer Dick" on the Randall, O-T-O near dude ranch of Livingston, Mont. "Pretty One afternoon last week, a non-dude native remarked: "These Easterners don't know nothing about ridin'." Young Dodge, piqued, boarded a wild steer, rode him without falling off, conquered him. Later, he performed creditably in a rodeo...
Thus, the spirit of contemporary U. S., according to Author Merz. In the 18th and 19th Centuries, the changing frontier provided a healthy outlet for this up-and-going urge. But today the frontier has disappeared, the Indians are in sideshows or oil fields, the cowboys are in dude ranches or vaudeville. What does Mr. Average Citizen do to relieve his tension? He goes exploring in his automobile, knowing perfectly well that he will see familiar filling stations, hot dogs, kewpie dolls, cigaret signboards, and a thousand explor ers who will say with him: "Well, the traffic sure is heavy...
...with them! And then you have to insult all the decent men who, like myself, think real bowling is not only good exercise but good he-man sport: "bowling or tenpins, playe 1 now in indoor alleys by barflies and roustabouts." I don't claim to be any dude but I am no barfly and I BOWL, IN AN ALLEY. Now here's where TIME lay down last week: in the SPORTS department were only that story about the bowling for old ladies, one pretty good story about baseball and two little stories about GOLF. That...