Word: dudes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...essence of the American film is the strong 'heman' who landed the goods, the self-made man who struggled to the top. We want more of that type. Let us have that sort of hero, rather than the dude who spends his time at the races or in dance halls, or the type of gentleman who never worked...
...body-snatcher who has never missed his snatch, even including a warm Manhattan divorcee who strolls into Cody dressed for Newport. Something about her is supposed to purify his ardor; he has to return from her bedroom saying he "wouldn't do such." The bedroom is in a dude lodge belonging to two embittered Manhattan males with a shingle over their door, "Damn the Women." One of these males is melted by the divorcée. Nancy, a profane prairie kitten, makes the evening a quaint quadrangle...
...Callers on President Coolidge included: John Hays Hammond, Chairman of the now defunct U. S. Coal Commission, who said that the country would go through the winter without a serious coal shortage and that New England would learn to use cheaper substitutes for hard coal; J. Hamilton Lewis, former "dude" Senator from Illinois, who found the President not at home, and told reporters that the fight for the Republican nomination in 1928 would be between Messrs. Hoover and Dawes; Senator Borah, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who called by invitation to discuss the funding of the Italian Debt...
...second marriage and the beginning of his fame as a newspaper- paragrapher?his final happiness. Vivid characters move across the spacious stage of the story: Fremont's great-hearted mother with her pipe and her commonsense; Raws Upright; Captain Ashe and his three pretty daughters; Paul Holbrook, the local "dude' and amateur politician. There is a certain largeness of incident and method like that of the prairies themselves...