Word: cowboying
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Luckey, a wealthy, Texas-born cattleman, had backed the Truman campaign in California almost singlehanded, had spent some $10,000 to run it. Since the campaign, he has been Harry Truman's fair-haired boy in California. Eyeing his Elks tooth, big Stetson and cowboy boots, the President had said: "Glad to see you wearing those [pointed] boots, George. They'll be good for kicking some of those fellows...
After a visit by Cowboy Cinemactor Roy Rogers, during which some 4,000 swarming youngsters almost swallowed him up before police reinforcements arrived, Denver's Mayor Quigg Newton used his weekly radio chat to apologize for City Hall's unpreparedness. Explained the mayor: "[The police] had no advance knowledge of the effect this particular movie star produces on children...
...although she admires the music and the men of the Middle Ages ("They had less plumbing, but they were more alive"), Suzanne is not above strumming cowboy songs on the lute for her seven-year-old son Anthony. One of her proudest accolades: recently, when she strummed for Anthony's pals at a party, they paraphrased the other critics...
...past dinner-jacketed newsboys at the entrance, stripped the lobby's $1,000 orchid-studded trees bare, guzzled 1,200 bottles of champagne before the banquet. Shamrocks bloomed everywhere-on ashtrays, wastebaskets, even on the panties and bras that McCarthy presented to his women guests. (The men got cowboy boots from the hides of prize cattle that provided the steaks.) The crowd whooped it up so hard that speeches by McCarthy, Texas' Governor Beauford Jester and Cinemactors Pat O'Brien and Leo Carrillo had to be put off until midnight. Rival Houston Hotelman Jesse Jones...
...riot when displeased; but Montalban, who keeps plenty of spirit of ammonia on hand for emergencies, says the police have been "very helpful." In their enthusiasm, the aficionados disdain such pallid Yankee conventions as waiting at the stage door for autographs. When they wanted the signature of Mexican Cowboy Singer Negrete, hundreds of them piled right up on the stage. But they are avid practitioners of the U.S. custom of whistling in approval. The piercing whistles once drove a singer to tears when Manager Montalban forgot to explain beforehand that this was not the traditional Latin catcalling...