Word: cowboy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Five cowgirls rode up and delivered bouquets of wild flowers to Mrs. Harding. The motion picture cameras missed the presentation; so Mrs. Harding had the girls do it over again, and saw that they were well photographed. The President said he was sorry for the passing of the cowboy, but could not bear the passing of the cowgirl...
Anent Mark Hanna: "He damned Roosevelt and said: 'I told William McKinley it was a mistake to nominate that wild man at Philadelphia. I asked him if he realized what would happen if he should die. Now, look, that damned cowboy is President of the United States.' . . . He came to my seat at the other end of the car and said: 'That damned cowboy wants me to take supper with him, alone. Damn him!' I said: 'Mark, you are acting like a child. Go and meet him half...
...discussion of comic personality on the musical stage can be quite adequate without due homage to Jack Hazzard, whose sentimental song parody is one of the brighter moments in the Greenwich Village Follies, or the overpowering pair of lovebirds, Savoy and Brennan, or the cowboy wit, Will Rogers of the Ziegfeld Follies...
...Prince of Wales purchased (for $10,000) a realistic painting of Western Life by the Montana cowboy artist, Charles M. Russell. The price was far in advance of any previously received by Russell, and much more than is usually paid for the work of living artists...
...years, the average level of production has not been much higher than the earliest days, when a picture showing action, mere movements of a man walking, was novel enough to succeed. The pictures of today, most of them, are in story and development hardly more advanced than the early cowboy and Indian stories, where the only difference in plots all of a pattern, the prairie schooner, the attack by Indians, and the rescue by the cowboys and by soldiers from the fort.--was the change in costume worn by the principals. Plots of today are inane and get nowhere...