Word: cowboying
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...Cowboy and the Ladies. Both the sentimentality and the rhetoric of Meet John Doe profit greatly by its star, whose personality has a great tendency to de-schmalz sentiment and de-rant rhetoric. Tens of thousands of fans know that Gary Cooper is 6 feet 2¾ inches tall, 175 pounds heavy, 40 years old, and that if he grew a beard he would look rather like Abraham Lincoln. To his friends he is "Coop." Though special tributes are often paid him where young women gather, he escapes such masculine calumny as sometimes finds its way toward the ears...
...Biscuit. From the lush meadows of Owner Howard's ranch, they coaxed the retired champion, father of seven and 80 pounds heavier than he was a year ago, to make a personal appearance. First he was to help unveil his own statue, a life-sized bronze by Cowboy Sculptor Tex Wheeler. Then he was to lead the parade to the post for the inaugural running of the Seabiscuit Handicap...
High Sierra (Warner). After Prohibition the gangster as an everyday aspect of U. S. life began to go the way of the Indian and the cowboy. The most recent gangster picture to shoot its way out of Hollywood has less of realistic savagery than of the quaint, nostalgic atmosphere of costume drama...
Highscorer and most brilliant light of the star-studded aggregation is "Cowboy" Kerr, who stands six feet four, and drops baskets in from all over the court. In 1939 he was All-West guard for the University of Oklahoma. George "Red" Lowman '38, now a proctor in Wiggles-worth Hall; and captain of the Crimson forces in 1938, is also on the team...
...recently, with two weeks intervening. Reports like these remind one of the ones from Libya, where the British took suspiciously long to put the finishing touches on surrounded Axis "remnants," which for a time seemed permanently on the verge of final destruction. They are also reminiscent of the old cowboy flickers which showed the rescue party speeding around the same bend in the road each time they were flashed on the screen...