Word: cowboying
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...Montana in the 1880s, Charles Marion Russell was just "a kid who drew things" when he was not working as a cowboy. He drew handsome, storytelling pictures of the Great West, full of live-looking cowboys, Indians and galloping horses. He sold them for $5, or even less, until he learned that some people would pay a lot more. He found this out when a man from Boston asked the price of two paintings. As Cowboy-Painter Russell told it later: "He was a plumb stranger ... so I said $50. And I'm a common liar if the fellow...
...criticism. A Presbyterian, and a great joiner (American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Shriners, Knights Templar, Elks, Eagles, Kiwanis, the Capital Card Club, etc.). Loves riding and campaigning on horseback; in parades, he exchanges his conservative suits for a white, gaily embroidered cowboy costume and ten-gallon hat. Married to Mabel Hill, whom he met in his college days; two daughters, both married, five grandchildren. His wife, who dislikes cocktail parties, is matronly, charming, and renowned throughout the state for her angel cake...
Trinity Methodist Church in Los Angeles found a new way to increase Sunday-school attendance last week: it got Hollywood Cowboy Roy Rogers to come and bring his clever blond horse Trigger...
Billy Graham has taken evangelism to the tailor. He wears a jaunty sky-blue gabardine, cut full to flatter his spare figure (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.). Accessories: a blue and white tie and square-folded white handkerchief, thick-soled, reddish-brown shoes, a cowboy belt with a silver buckle and silver tip. ("You know," muses Billy, "when I was a kid, I used to think that preachers all wore black suits and long faces.") In his campaign posters, Billy's face is sleekly handsome; the reality seems gaunter and more impressive-deep-set, remote blue eyes, sharp...
...enraged cartoons of blood-spitting consumptives, marble-jawed army officers, mincing whores and bull-necked burghers provoked Hitler to call him "cultural Bolshevist No 1." Grosz hated Germany, and he yearned to live in the U.S. His sketchbooks were filled with dreamy portraits of himself as a cowboy or an Indian chief, his room plastered with U.S. posters on which he inscribed mythical greetings to himself from Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller...