Word: dudeness
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...situation in the Mingusville, S. Dak. saloon, that night in 1885, seemed to be stacked against the spectacled dude from the East. A Bad Lands drunkard who had just put a couple of holes in the clock over the bar waved his cocked pistols at the stranger and announced: "Four Eyes is going to set up drinks." Four Eyes paid him no mind, finished warming his hands at the stove, then turned and-as both bullets went wild-knocked the gunman cold with a single punch. After that, Tenderfoot Rancher Theodore Roosevelt was affectionately known around Mingusville as Old Four...
...Fifteen workers in CCC's Dallas office took gifts from private companies ranging from "boxes of fruit and shrimp, raincoats, Stetson hats and Mexican belts with silver buckles to $100 gift certificates and trips to expensive dude ranches and fishing resorts...
...Beachcomber John Russell and his mangy crew reckon without the courage of Mailman Jerome Courtland, the awshucks hero who plunges under water to wrestle alligators hand-to-jaw when the safety of Heroine Terry Moore is at stake. And they fail to figure on the cunning of Dude Robert Cummings, a polysyllabic confidence man who comes from the North to swindle the Floridians, and stays on to save them. Whenever Cummings is in a tight spot, he reaches to his watch chain for a pistol the size of a tie-clip and plugs his assailant with a Lilliputian slug...
Spending his honeymoon with Yolanda Donlan (Mrs. Drake) on a farm in England, Fairbanks plays the dude. He continually argues with a cynical caretaker, whose Aroostook twang is painfully out of place, and with a handyman who can never finish a job. This too typical domestic scene is complemented by giggles from Yo-Yo (Yolanda, an actress who should have been left on the string) and snide marriage-night remarks from Drake...
Yankee depredations have forced Cooper to become an outlaw, at least in the eyes of the scoundrels who administer justice. Out of a gunpoint encounter, he strikes up a friendship with an upright dude (Leif Erickson) from Boston who has become a U.S. marshal in Dallas. Cooper takes over Erickson's identity and fancy duds, his official mission and, at length, even his girl (Ruth Roman...