Word: dudeness
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...left for Vicksburg, settled up with his guardian, set off for the Northwest. He had no particular goal, and only one letter of introduction. A friend of his father's had remembered that in his youth in Georgia he had known a brilliant town dandy, one Dude Lewis, now supposedly out West practicing...
Young Pittman made inquiries at Seattle. Dude Lewis was well known. The slim Southerner was straightway taken in to a law office that was as luxuriously civilized as Seattle was rough and pioneer; greeted by a redhaired, red-bearded man of extreme elegance-James Hamilton Lewis, then only a dude lawyer, but soon to be a Congressman from Washington, later a Senator from Illinois...
...thin thread of continuity that runs through Hold On to Your Hats is spun of the same stuff that has gone into most theatrical satires on radio. A timid aerial star known as the Lone Rider is enticed to a Western dude ranch, confronted with real bandits who scare the chaps off him until just before the finale, when he gets the drop on them all. Jaunty at 54, still tops at putting over a song or a story, Jolson gallops triumphantly through the part of the Lone Rider, accompanied by a whole rodeo of able talent...
Some 20 years ago a young U. S. English instructor named Richard C. Gill decided to visit Ecuador. He liked the country so well that he bought 750 acres of jungle near the headwaters of the Amazon River. There Gill and his wife pioneered the first dude ranch in South America...
...assistant secretaries to the General Munitions Board (later the War Industries Board) and subsequently an Aircraft Armament officer in the A. E. F. For the past number of years, I have been editor of a national magazine devoted to Conservation of our Natural Resources, and also a New Mexico dude and cattle rancher...