Word: cowboying
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...luncheon in Hot Springs, the President inquired for Badger Clark, author of one of his favorite poems, "The Cowboy's Prayer."- The luncheon hosts were embarrassed, not having invited Poet Clark, whom they at once sent for, whose eloquent mother later gave the President a U. S. flag, equipped with staff...
...like. Being the daughter of Headmaster Charles S. Ingham of Dummer Academy (South Byfield, Mass.), only 26 and surpassing fair, she comes naturally by her understanding of nice young modern emotions. How she assimilated the more feverish, spotty metropolitan spectacle-down to the contents of a drug-store cowboy's frayed wallet, stage door argot and the private thoughts of night club Neros-is another story. She worked on metropolitan newspapers, married T. Stewart Brush of the New York Herald Tribune staff, whose father, Lewis Brush, is a press potentate in Ohio...
...first time that the eyes of public cameras had seen President Coolidge on the back of a horse, either iron or flesh & blood. Dressed in complete cowboy costume down to Mexican spurs, the President rode three miles up the side of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills, accompanied by his riding instructor, "Dakota Clyde" Jones; Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio and others. Following a presidential salute of 21 blasts,? President Coolidge dedicated the national memorial which Gutzon Borglum began to carve on the granite face of Mount Rushmore. "We have come home to dedicate a cornerstone that...
...Professor Charles Austin Beard, historian, formerly of Columbia University, ridiculed President Coolidge's "wearing cowboy breeches and fishing with worms." He predicted an alliance between the South and West as defense against the Eastern capitalistic control of politics. He defended the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill as "an experimental adventure...
...President photographed in a new role?that of gold-miner. "Panning" gold in Slate Creek, after the fashion of the early prospectors, the President secured a few particles of the shining precious metal. Thus cinema patrons were assured of seeing Miner Coolidge and Fisherman Coolidge as well as Cowboy Coolidge. Mrs. Coolidge also panned gold and .succeeded in "getting color...