Word: dudes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ellie May, tortured with the abnormal appetites of the deformed; her golden-haired daughter Pearl who somehow manages to remain a wife in name only; Pearl's normal husband Lov who bought her for $7, loves her vainly, beats her moderately; Jeeter and Ada's remaining son Dude whose pastime is bouncing a ball, whose dream is an automobile horn; a middle-aged prostitute turned evangelist who makes Dude her lawful pastime by buying him an automobile horn with automobile attached...
...South America's few professional B. O. M.'s (Big Outdoor Men) and dude-wranglers, my job is to make the jungle travel-easy for travel-bored, publicized, paying guests. And it is true, as several well known, faithfully-recording explorers have recently written, that the primitive jungle is as safe as modern Fifth Avenue, safer, possibly, than Broadway. In common with several of my colleagues, I think that Mr. Duguid overwrites his minor incidents for purposes of lay-appeal...
Last week 15 paying members of a "dude" adventure cruise, scheduled to leave Long Beach, Calif, for the South Seas', prematurely got a melodramatic money's-worth while their boat was still tied to the dock. The trip's impresario, a middle-aged professional soldier-of-for-tune named Valerian Johannes Tieczynski, alias Captain Walter Wanderwell, fantastically paid for his clients' thrill with his life...
...Allen, one of the authors of The Washington Merry-Go-Round; a dispassionate report of Harlan, Ky. mine disorders by Eve Garrette Grady; a sketch of California's Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph; bits of verse; an estimate of the late Ivar Kreuger; a revelation that cowboys on dude ranches sometimes make love to attractive feminine guests; a review of the wrestling racket...
Club members now abroad include Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews who sailed for inner Mongolia fortnight ago; Gene Lamb in Tibet; Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey leading his "dude" expedition down the Amazon. Lincoln Ellsworth was last week preparing a 1932 flight with Bernt Bal-chen across Antarctica. Sir George Hubert Wilkins sailed from Manhattan last week for, it was said, a conference with Premier Benito Mussolini concerning another submarine trip toward the North Pole...