Word: cowboy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sixpocket table with 15 numbered balls and a cue ball. You must name the ball you want to pocket and the pocket you are shooting for. If you make your shot and knock in some extra balls you may count them too. All other pool games-cowboy, rotation, kelly-are variations of this Green game, but experts shun them. Very serious and sleek in his neat tuxedo, his dead-white face immobile as plaster in the strong light, his oiled hair shining like paint, Ralph Greenleaf made run after run. Once he annoyed Rudolph who, having just missed his 24th...
...people who have talked themselves into print, one of the most successful is Cowboy-Funnyman Will Rogers. The technique of a gum-chewing commentator ("Wal, all I know is what I see in the newspapers"), which he developed in vaudeville and which landed him downstage in the Ziegfeld Follies, also got him a job as a daily paragrapher...
...house) on wheels. In a great wooden tabernacle Evangelist Billy Sunday shouted against sin. The oldsters knew what he was talking about. They knew how the cowboys of the '70s spent their holidays in Dodge City. They had seen desperados run amuck, had joined in quick, relentless justice. Remembering, they climbed Dodge City's famed Boot Hill, burial place of many men and one woman* who died "with their boots on" (by violence). Although 32 of the bodies were removed to the town's cemetery in 1878, it is popularly supposed that several collections of bones still...
...When one bowler saw him bunching the pins for the next man, Taylor had to leave through a window. Life was not all work. The white boys had a game "Stray Goose." One boy ran, until caught and pummeled. Taylor helped. When he was 16 he put on a cowboy's costume and strutted to a dance. The girls were nicer than Big Maude's. He began to dream and want money. He told his mother what he had heard of Wall Street. She looked grim, so he ran away to Minneapolis...
...Dartmouth scouts, including "Wife" Jennings '00, Jim Donnelly '20, and Frank Dorney '21, arrived in Hanover yesterday and assisted Coach Cannell with the practice today. Captain Ellsworth Armstrong was released from the College Infirmary yesterday morning, and reported for practice in the afternoon. "Cowboy" Coles replaced Hank Barber at tackle owing to an injury which Barber sustained while in the Columbia game. He is now receiving treatment and is expected to be in shape for Saturday's encounter. Armstrong and Booma spent some time practicing kickoffs, as it is doubtful whether or not Paul Crehan will be in the starting...