Word: cowboying
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...Mexican Indian, a onetime cowboy and an Alabama Negro who used to be a bootblack composed the bulk of the music which Conductor Leopold Stokowski brought from Philadelphia to Manhattan one night last week. The fair-haired Stokowski was proving that his orchestra gives an occasional hearing to untried native composers...
...Mexican Indian was Manuel Ponce who contributed Chapultepec, a suave Frenchy picture of the cypress woods which surround the castle in Mexico City where the ill-fated Maximilian once lived. The cowboy was Harl McDonald, now a teacher at the University of Pennsylvania, who meant his Santa Fé Trail to describe the trek of New England pioneers across the blistering desert. The McDonald pioneers were not a hardy lot and their mood, more often than not, was touched with the Russian melancholy of Tchaikovsky...
...near South St. Paul, the stockyard centre of Minnesota, and has two brothers working in the stockyards, he has a natural claim to "Hook 'Em Cow" loyalty. He scored none of Minnesota's five touchdowns against Chicago last week, but his runs, swift and swaying like a cowboy, and his bowling-ball interference helped make them possible. Although he has not been a full-time player, in the first six games of the season he accounted for 532 yd. or more than a quarter of Minnesota's total ground gained by rushing. Minnesota's greatest ground...
...knows where rodeos started. Prescott, Ariz. held a championship cowboy contest on July 4, 1888. Pecos City, Tex., claims to have had an earlier one. Cheyenne's Frontier Days fiesta, though it has since become better known than Prescott's, started nine years later. Long before any of these, rodeos were part of fiestas in Mexico. There are now over 400 places in the U. S. which hold annual rodeos. Most famed are Cheyenne Frontier Days, the Pendleton Roundup, the Calgary Stampede, Fort Worth Rodeo, the Cowboys' Reunion at Las Vegas, N. Mex. Originally, rodeo events, like...
...true friend of President Roosevelt and the New Deal. In spite of his parole profligacy and the fact that his State is one of the five in which the Federal Government administers its own work relief, Governor Eugene Talmadge apparently swore the most convincingly. He might wear outlandish cowboy clothes in public and his wife might hang the family wash in the front yard of the executive mansion, but the back-country farmers trooped to the polls to renominate him in a primary that was tantamount to election...