Word: cowboying
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...cowboy hero's only child, William Jr., promptly sued to break the will, which had left him nothing. He charged that Father William had been "mentally incompetent...
...Oklahomans who gathered at the domeless state house for the ceremonies were reminded of another Turner asset. As they waited for the new governor to appear, the Flying L Ranch quartet gave out with the tune of Hereford Heaven-authored by Roy Turner, introduced in the movies by Cowboy Hero Roy Rogers...
...Sprada had radioed that he was at 7,000 feet and could see the San Diego field 60 miles away in the sparkling clear night. A few minutes later, ranchers saw a flame on the mountain top. Then the weather closed in. It was three days later that a cowboy came upon what was left...
...voters to discover it. He overflowed with leg-slapping rustic humor. Once, when a heckler asked if a man should be punished for beating his wife, he cried: "Depends on how hard you hit her." He chewed tobacco and smoked at the same time, sometimes dressed up in cowboy clothes to ride a mule. As Governor he built barns behind the executive mansion, kept cows, hogs and hens in them. When he shouted campaign speeches he took off his coat to disclose the bright red galluses which became his trademark...
Thirty-six-year-old Vicar Peter Mahew said he would rather see boys reading thrillers than bored by a sermon. His parishioners agreed; they supplied stacks of cowboy stories, Edgar Wallace mysteries, schoolboy magazines...