Word: cowboying
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...Oklahoma would restrict the suffrage to those who had something more in their heads than can be gotten from "country" music and singing commercials, no candidate would ask for votes on the ground that he was "the best damn cowboy singer in the world." Democracy should not be degraded to a device for the amusement of morons...
Fletcher Riley, a candidate for governor, was stopped by California police on the way to visit his estranged wife and relieved of a revolver and a rifle. Charley Huff, running for secretary of state, limited his plea for votes to the boast that he was "the best damn cowboy singer in the world." In Sequoyah County, E. W. Floyd, a brother of the late Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, won the Democratic nomination for county sheriff. And Homer Cox, just declared sane after his mother asked an examination by a sanity board, lost his race for secretary of state. Sighed...
...West. "Any of them would have ridden 30 miles to fetch you a doctor or they'd share their last bit of grub with you. But they wouldn't go to jail for you, or accept an insult," he says with a leathery grin. "The modern cowboy, good man that he is, is not my sort of fellow, jiggling about in a jeep through a West expertly policed and bustling with fences...
...oldtime cowboy movie star decided that since television had made him famous all over again, he might as well cash in. His ad in Hollywood's Daily Variety trade sheet: "One of America's greatest Western heroes. Hoot Gibson [58], star of more than 350 feature motion pictures. Guest star on television and radio from coast to coast. Now available...
Marlcdown. In Electra, Texas, arrested for forging a check to pay for a pair of cowboy boots, Jesse Smith explained: "The boots had been reduced from $38 to $32 and I just couldn't resist a bargain." The Background. In Dallas, Mrs. Chester Johnson, testifying that her husband had slashed her fur coat with a knife while she was wearing it, was asked where she got the coat, told the judge: "My husband asked the same question-he objected to another man giving me the coat and started slashing." Reward. In Louisville, Chester Fawbush helped foil...