Word: cactus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cactus Jack...
...Right. The jumbled doggerel is from the Garner campaign song, Cactus Jack, sounds like the work of a political dude rancher...
...Panda Poker Club of Louisville, Ky., Mrs. Ettie Garner last week wrote that her husband Cactus Jack "left off the practice [of playing poker] a good many years ago." With the poker & whiskey vote lined up for him by John L. Lewis' attack last fortnight Mr. Garner announced in Texas: "I'm going to get eviler every day." He went bass-fishing at once with his crony, Ross Brumfield, Uvalde garage...
John Garner read the statement, chuckled, said "No comment." Newshawks began checking, soon learned that "Cactus Jack" quit high-stake poker about 1920, has since played seldom and then for "buttons."* All top-rank correspondents know John Garner's drinking habits. He likes bonded rye, will occasionally go for good corn, scorns soda, ice and fancy fixings, pours water-tumblers half-full, says "Let's strike a blow for liberty" and chases with a little "branch-water" out of the faucet. He has never been seen drunk or even lightly groggy. After 6 p. m. for some...
...that, Newsboy Heckman next set about selling his papers, delivering himself thuswise: "They're scrapping the treaties! They'll scrap anything! But they CAIN'T scrap the LORD! He's here to stay! John L. Lewis shouldn't 'a' done it! Old Cactus Jack is all right! My Goodness! My Goodness...