Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even such an anti-Establishmentarian as Steve McQueen is a Wayne buff. "Sometimes kids ask me what a pro is," he says. "I just point to the Duke...
...recalls. "The man in charge was a little dance director. Everything he did was by the count?one, two, three, four?and then your line. I was completely embarrassed, and that's when I walked down the street talking to myself. Will Rogers went by and he says, 'Hey, Duke, what's the matter?' And I started to tell him and he says, 'You're working aren't ya? Keep...
...distinctive Wayne drawl there is the implication that somehow it would be effeminate to pronounce the ow in fellow or the / in of. In a field where male stars are constantly rumored to be epicene, Wayne's masculinity is incontestable. As a boy he owned a dog named Duke. The child became Big Duke, and the sobriquet stuck. By 30, Big Duke was a looming figure of contained violence waiting for a place to let loose. "I was in a saloon once where a guy shot all the way down a bar," he once complained to a director during...
STEVEN LUNZER, M D. Duke Medical Center Durham...
...passed the genetic disorder on to 16 generations of European aristocracy. Her son, James I of England, was affected, as are several living European aristocrats who cooperated in the study but asked that they not be identified. In a simliar fashion, Queen Victoria-whose father, the Duke of Kent, showed signs of porphyria-passed hemophilia on to generations of male European royalty...