Word: cowboying
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Government. Too sickly to attend school, he was tutored in Turkish and in military strategy by a disinherited German nobleman-cowboy; a Turkish scholar taught him Asiatic lore. Thus primed, in 1935 Hathaway went to Bombay, thence to Tibet and Turkestan, where he fought with a bloodthirsty Mohammedan chieftain against the Bolsheviks. Captured, he spent 116 days in solitary confinement in a Soviet prison, made his lucky exit via the Gobi desert to Shanghai. Whatever the facts of his curious adventures, Author "Ramal" is a vivid writer, nearly rivals the fantastic imaginings of Frederic Prokosch's The Asiatics...
...made a red cent) has become one of the show places of the region. But he is shyly conscious of being a little more prosperous than his neighbors, is afraid of being thought a showoff. Talkative and genial, he walks with the swivel-hipped, bowlegged, rolling gait of a cowboy, wears his heart on his sleeve, tells his most intimate business to anybody who happens to be around. A sure sucker for any kind of financial venture, he has lost enough money on bogus oil stock to keep many of his neighbors in beans for a lifetime...
Refereeing a wrestling match in Atlanta, Jack Dempsey several times warned Wrestler Cowboy Lutrell against rough tactics, finally awarded the match to his opponent on a foul. Indignant Lutrell took a poke at Dempsey, and Prize Fighter Dempsey, long out of training, went into action, nailed him with a hard punch, drove him to the ropes...
...exhibition, his first in five years, Painter Blanch had scoured the U. S. from the Carolina low country to the Colorado badlands, painting dilapidated shanties of Southern Negroes, sprawling prairie hamlets of the Middle West, dry, cowboy country of the Rockies. Ungilded with backwoods quaintness, unburdened with "social significance," his paintings let the U. S. speak for itself, from ramshackle farmhouses and clap-boarded Western store fronts...
...checked and double-checked, and please pull for me. Will you pull? How many good ones and how many bad ones? Please, I had nothing with him. He was a cowboy in one of the seven days a week fights. No business, no hangout, no friends, nothing...