Word: dudeness
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...Last week the 15,000 stores of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. became newsstands for an even more pretentious giveaway. From 215,000 contest entries A. & P. paid two women each $1,000 for the title Woman's Day. Mrs. Haydie Yates, who once ran a western dude ranch and became managing editor of Today and New York Woman in rapid succession, was selected to serve up a magazine of household utility, designed to tell women how to use the food they buy. Fashioned around menus and home hints...
Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Thomas Fortune Ryan II, 29, formerly Divorcée Mayme Cook Masters; from Thomas Fortune Ryan II, 38, grandson of the late financier, who in 1931 was disinherited by his father for marrying her after a brief courtship on a Wyoming dude ranch; charging "intolerable indignities, desertion, and failure to support," asking alimony and division of property; in Cheyenne, Wyo. Four months after they were married, Heir Ryan declared: "I would rather have my little wife than all my father's millions...
...Smyth (Frances Langford) to snare a rich husband (David Xiven) in order to repay her father (Sir Guy Standing) for his sacrifices in earning a living as a gambler to provide her with the luxuries of a fashionable school. She ends by marrying Slim (Smith Ballew), owner of a dude ranch...
Married. Anne Gould Meador, 22, great-granddaughter of the late Jay Gould; and Herman H. Elsbury, 24, dude ranch cowboy; in Cheyenne, Wyo., day after her first husband, Frank Spencer J. Meador, divorced her in Texas...
WHEN brother Delta Tau Deltas from the University of Florida visit Sam Byrd in New York they still find him playing Dude Lester in Tobacco Road-now going on about the 900th performance-one of the most cussed sons in all the world-a tough, blasphemous kid full of sex and Georgia Cracker adolescent orneriness. Offstage, Dude is a slender ex-collegian who stocker journalism and wrote a few one act plays before getting on Broadway. Now he has to battle to keep from sounding like the half wittel nasty Dude when he's not being Dude, and that hard...