Word: cowboying
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When an oldtime cowboy wanted to tell how drunk he had been, he said he was so drunk he couldn't hit the ground with his hat in three throws. The cowboy liked his coffee strong. If a horseshoe would sink in it, he said, it wasn't ready. He called all coffee Arbuckle, after the brand commonly used on the range...
...oldtime cowboy was extremely ceremonious and intensely democratic. In the presence of ladies, he referred to a bull as an animal. He referred contemptuously to fistfights as dogfights. Oldtimers in the cattle country were said to be alkalied when "they knowed all the lizards by their first names, except the younger set." A young fellow, or a small man, was said to be fryin' size. When the cowboy got drunk he liked to have everyone know it - he said he cut his wolf loose. Once four young cowpunchers rode their horses into a New Mexico saloon where an Eastern...
...remained for newly elected Cowboy Glenn Taylor, the pride of Idaho, to supply the inevitable comic relief. Gathered with his wife & children on the Capitol steps, the wide-open Senator, banjo in hand, wailed his lament. Sample verse...
...jovial Major General Patrick Jay Hurley, who has been coal miner, cowboy, mule skinner, lawyer to the Choctaws, buck private and presidential envoy extraordinary, began his newest job: U.S. Ambassador to China. His letters of credence had not arrived from Washington, but Chungking waved aside such formalities. In the American Embassy Pat Hurley held his first press conference, told reporters how he had taken part in parleys between Chiang Kai-shek's Government and the Chinese Communists. It was a strangely unself-conscious tale...
...Cowboy. Idaho's next Senator is Glenn Hearst Taylor, 40, who won in his third try for office. The first time (1940), Cowboy Glenn toured the state with a blaring sound truck, lost. Second time (1942), he crooned and strummed his way around on a big black horse named "Nig," lost again. This year, after working in a San Francisco war plant, he turned up in Idaho in a sedate grey Homburg and a conservative business suit. That...