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Word: dudes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flags throughout the city fly at half-mast today in memory of the hot-headed and charitable. Cambridge-born politician who often received national publicity for his incurable antics and clashes with political and personal enemies. A violent anti-Communist. "Mickey the Dude" could never reconcile his theories with those of the University which he felt "dominated" the Cambridge scene...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Councilman Mike Sullivan To Be Buried Here Today | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...there was another side to "the Dude, "a side than won him re-election after re-election and an unshakable spot in the hearts of local citizens and constituents. This was Mickey the Good Samaritan Mickey the friend who stuck by the veterans in issues, on housing, a memorial plaque, and additional burying space at the Cambridge Cemetery. This was the "politico" who took enough time to drive hundreds of Kerry Corner youngsters out into the country on Sunday mornings. This was the bespectacled little man who on Saturday morning, personality delivered baskets of food to poor and needy families...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Councilman Mike Sullivan To Be Buried Here Today | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

They say a dude set off 17 sticks of blasting powder across the river last week, and blew up a goodly portion of riverbank along with it. 17 sticks is a powerful lot of dynamite, even for a lark. It wasn't very thoughtful of him either, cause the City of Boston spent a pile of money a few years back filling in the very same hole he blew the dirt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red-Blooded Dynamite | 11/30/1948 | See Source »

...more colorful politicians than Michigan's white-maned Republican Governor Kim Sigler. His piped vests, beribboned spectacles, and neon-colored ties made him the most splendiferous dude since Illinois' pink-bearded Senator J. Hamilton ("Ham") Lewis. But 54-year-old ex-Cowboy Kim Sigler burned a little too brightly. During two years in office, he tramped on legislative toes, ignored party wheel horses, dictatorially alienated members of his own cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Cleanup for Soapy | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...Guys from Texas (Warner). Jack Carson (comedy and song) and Dennis Morgan (romance and song) stop off at a dude ranch run by quite a looker (Dorothy Malone), who can also sing. The act the two guys put on in the patio, for the other guests, would probably break the monotony of life on a dude ranch more successfully than it breaks the monotony of watching this picture. The guys are suspected of theft but finally catch the real crooks. They are moderately amusing when they horse around with a psychiatrist (Fred Clark). They even appear, in caricature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 13, 1948 | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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