Word: cowboying
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...highbrows' loss is the hoi-polloi's gain, for inside the binding is a fascinating tale, expertly handled by a young writer who shows himself to be a master of psychological study. In addition, Clark catches the true flavor of his setting. No drug-store cowboy, the author completely revolutionizes the Zane Grey tradition of the Western novel in which men are mangled and women wangled...
...through authors, poets, educators, scientists, composers, inventors-five of each. Last week it was busy with artists. Already on sale were Portraitist Gilbert Stuart (1?), James A. McNeill Whistler (2?). Out last week went Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens (3?) and Daniel Chester French Frederic Remington, famed Indian and cowboy painter (10?), goes on sale next week. The first four artists' stamps were not likely to make stamp users very art-conscious. They were, respectively, a hideous green, a hackneyed red, a sickly magenta, a commonplace blue, each containing a palette and brushes in one corner, engravers' tools...
...popular as the paymaster on the Paramount, lot, brought her a seven-year contract which now pays $100 weekly. She supports her family in a small whitewashed bunga low, responds to frequent touches by broke friends and relations. Her greatest extravagance to date is a pair of $3.98 cowboy boots which she used to wear continuously until schoolmates' jibes forced her to abandon them...
There he stayed. Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst became a Washington character. Tall, with the suave manner of a Shakespearean actor, he gave up his cowboy clothes for sleek, striped trousers, spade-tailed coat, pince-nez on a wide black ribbon. His speeches were orations, models of polysyllabic splendor. He described himself as a "veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano in behalf of the principles of my party." But meatily between the thick-hunked verbiage were sandwiched slices of wit and wisdom. He was one man who dared to tackle rough-&-tumble Huey Long in debate on the Senate floor. He left...
...bicycle to get help. The German begs a cigaret which Miss Grant sportingly, if inadvisedly, tosses him. This distraction provides his chance to knock her sprawling and he bounds out the door just as the Home Guard sprints up like a battalion of Hollywood's best cowboy heroes. Moral: always be on your guard with a parachutist in the house...