Word: cowboy
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following is a cowboy's version of Mark Antony's speech: "Members of the family, relatives and friends, I didn't come here to talk, I'm on business. I'm an undertaker...
...example of the superior educational advantages of large universities, I might mention the case of two brothers, one of whom graduated from Rochester, and the other from Yale. The Yale man became very famous as a base-ball pitcher, but is now picking up a living as a cowboy. The Rochester man is a professor in a medical college at Cleveland, and is rapidly rising in his profession, although he has found that with Connecticut people it is a great distinction for him to be the brother of the base-ball man." - Evening Record...