Word: cowboying
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...fair Wyoming morning last week, Hollywood's Wallace Beery rose up early at his ranch in the rugged Jackson Hole country, donned an old shirt, blue denim pants and cowboy boots. He put on his big black Stetson with the chin strap, grabbed his trusty six-shooter and climbed aboard his trusty white mare. In the fresh morning air he rode through the fertile valley to join a posse of ranchers...
...Based on" Lynn Riggs's folk play, Green Grow the Lilacs, Oklahoma! chiefly concerns the struggle between a good cowboy (Alfred Drake) and an evil hired hand (Howard da Silva) over a fetching farm girl (Joan Roberts). The cowboy's triumph is delayed by a perversity of female behavior pretty glaring even for musicomedy, not to speak of a brand of villainy pretty passe even in Wild West films...
...Mayor will probably be sent to North Africa as an administrator of conquered territory, eventually may be U.S. administrator of a liberated Italy. New Yorkers have found nine years of the Little Flower, scolding, sulking, racing to fires, waving his cowboy hat, chasing after bingo players, a little too strenuous. Italians, weary of their high officials' maestoso struttings, might take Butch's pizzicato to their hearts...
Tent Shows and Temples. In Oakland young Grauman saw a cowboy revivalist vainly holding forth in a tent. Sighed the cowboy: "They don't want the Lord." Said Grauman: "I want the tent." He set it up in the middle of San Francisco as Grauman's National Theater, using church pews for seats, and did so well that he finally built a corrugated-iron edifice around it "and never even lost a matinee in the process." Soon he was operating other theaters...
...four years Thurman Wesley Arnold (ex-Yale law professor, former mayor of Laramie, Wyo.) had ridden herd on trusts like a paunchy cowboy. He had corralled more monopolies, obtained more indictments of corporations and labor unions than any other man in history. Last week his trust-busting rodeo was over. To the Senate the President sent his nomination to be an associate justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...