Duluth Central High School class of 1924: Mixers, fussers, boosters and bluffers
These snippets are from the 1924 edition of The Zenith, Central’s yearbook. If you wish to read the text and find it too small, click on any image to see it bigger.
These snippets are from the 1924 edition of The Zenith, Central’s yearbook. If you wish to read the text and find it too small, click on any image to see it bigger.
What’s a Bluffer?
This…is hilarious.
I would think a bluffer is someone who is skillful in the art of deception, but that definition only kind of seems to fit here. Obviously it’s fun to pretend there’s a sexual innuendo going on here.
It’s fun to read these out loud in an old-timey voice. I suggest everyone tries it.
That was a hoot.
I just realized that all of these people are probably dead now. Then I got sad.
In this context I believe a bluffer would translate to a tease.
At least when applied to the girl.
Reading is fundamental. Paul is right.
I’d wager a bluffer is like a bull-shit artist and a low-level scammer, someone who wins you over but will take you for a ride. Perhaps a “rouge.”
PDD’s Fairy Research Spy found an article from the Dec. 3, 1915, Duluth News Tribune which seems to indicate the Central tradition of voting on a favorite bluffer started eight years prior, with the class of 1916. Lazies, grafters and roughnecks were also targets that year.
This is awesome–I love old yearbooks. I have a 1896 edition of the Zenith that I’ve been meaning to scan in and do something with.
I’d equate bluffer to joshing.
“Biggest grafter,” on the other hand… Joining?
Methinks edgeways meant “rogue”…..