Word: cowboying
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...annual celebration of Frontier Days, at its big park sentimentally dedicated to the era when Cheyenne was a way stop for the Pony Express.* The original U. S. rodeo, Frontier Days drew all the West's best cowhands for five days of hard competition. Governor William Adams, onetime cowboy, went up from Colorado to watch the fun. Publisher Frederick Bonfils of the Denver Post, last great frontier pub publisher, took 400 guests to Cheyenne in a special train. There were pep and parades, noise and nonsense, music and merrymaking...
...grieved more deeply at the Speaker's death than his fiercest political foe in life, short, ruddy Congressman John Nance ("Jack") Garner of Texas, onetime cowboy, leader of the House Democrats. Tears filled his blue eyes when he heard the news. "My closest, my best-loved friend!" he exclaimed. "Mr. Longworth was an aristocrat. I am a plebeian. Perhaps the very fact of our different rearing intensified our interest in each other." As rival leaders of the House Garner and Longworth had joked over the Speaker's official automobile, called it "our car" (TIME, Nov. 17). After House hours they...
...Conquering Horde (Paramount). This picture includes all the sequences acceptable to fanciers of western pictures. Carpetbaggers follow herds across the border and are harassed by a cowboy (Richard Arlen) whose ulterior motive is love for a beautiful but pure girl (Fay Wray...
GREEN GROW THE LILACS-Franchot Tone of the Guild makes a surprisingly good cowboy...
...Citizens hasten to buy Rosenthal figures in all the European branches, will not buy them in their own country. Potter Rosenthal admires the U. S. The Wanderjahr to which every well-to-do German youth feels entitled, Potter Rosenthal spent on the western plains in 1874 as "ein wirklicher Cowboy." Through the Art Alliance of America he offered in 1930 three prizes, $1,500, $750, $500 for small sculpture "typically American in theme," suitable for reproducing in Rosenthal china and by sculptors living in the U. S. First prize last week went to Atanas Katchamakoff for an amusing little Papoose...