Word: cowboying
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...welcome Clement Attlee back from his White House conferences, the London Daily Mail ran a cartoon of the Prime Minister dressed in cowboy boots, holding a ten-gallon hat and speaking a Fleet Street version of U.S. dialect: "Waal folks, I been away quite a piece, I guess, and it sure is mighty fine to be back here wid youse guys on dis li'l ol' island...
...fashioned carols rolled forth as usual, but in some parts of the U.S. the age seemed to be catching up to Santa Claus. Dallas' big A. Harris & Co. department store had converted roly-poly Santa into a tall, flat-flanked cowboy, who rode in a buckboard instead of a sleigh, wore a bright red shirt and long white beard but no other traditional trappings. In Pekin, Ill., when a more conventional Santa came wheeling through town in a parade, he was ignominiously snowballed by teenagers...
Never a Dull Moment (RKO Radio) tries to hatch another Egg and I, merely lays an egg. The picture marries off a fashionable Broadway songwriter (Irene Dunne) to a rodeo cowboy (Fred MacMurray) and plunges her into the soul-testing pratfalls of housekeeping on his ramshackle ranch...
Although he once rebelled at western costumes, he now-in keeping with his mission-wears a ten-gallon hat and cowboy boots at all times. He is also convinced that his public does not consider him an actor, but simply a friend-a sort^ of ^benign but colorful uncle whom it instinctively wants to invite for dinner...
...cowboy never knew when the herd would tromp him down...