Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...McLoughlin forged ahead from the start and led for the early part of the race, but Burwell and Dartmouth's "John" Bull took over the lead late in the race...
...cattle trucks, sandwiched between armed cars, those quartered at the Prison System's ten farms are taken to the '"Walls" (main prison) at Huntsville. More than 75% of the 6,500 inmates get to see the show. Those who think they can manage a wild bull or a horse "with a bellyful of bedsprings" take part. Each contestant gets $3 and a chance to win an additional $15 to $25 (first prize), $10 (second) or $7.50 (third) in the afternoon's eleven events. They also get a chance to wear ten-gallon hats, high-heeled boots...
...Prison roundup is worth riding miles to see. Rodeo fans cram into the Prison Stadium, not because their 50? admission fees go to the Prison System's education fund, but because the convicts put on a rip-roaring show. Besides routine rodeo events-bronc riding, calf roping, bull riding and wild-cow milking-there are entr'actes such as a 50-piece Prison Band, the Cotton Pickers' Glee Club and Bill ("Snuffy") Garrett, a "knobknocker" (safecracker) with 263 years to serve, whose clown act, in top hat and stripes, makes even the old prison walls shake...
...little Paul Guyton, in for 20 years for shooting a big fellow who picked on him in a saloon. Guyton, whose 125 pounds had never been astride anything but a motorcycle until last year, won $25 for riding a Brahma steer the length of the arena. In five appearances, Bull-rider Guyton has never been thrown...
...legend of Hemingway virility was about to develop into a new Byronism. Quipped Westbrook Pegler: "Ernest Hemingway-the fur-bearing author. . . ." Critic Bernard De Voto observed: "So far none of Ernest Hemingway's characters has had any more consciousness than a jaguar." Critic Max Eastman wrote his Bull in the Afternoon, one day traded blows with angry Author Hemingway in the most diverting literary brawl since Theodore Dreiser punched Sinclair Lewis. There was a feeling abroad that Hemingway was a little too obsessed with sex, a little too obsessed with blood for the sake of blood, killing...