Word: puncher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...join our party or we will get your two children on May Day!" This threat, whispered by Communists over and over to simple Thomas Testa, Parisian factory worker, so preyed on his mind that last week, mad with fear he rushed into the Metro (subway), dashed through the ticket puncher's wicket, flung himself off the platform before an oncoming train. The cars only took off one of his legs...
...saddle who knew most of his state from the Tetons to the Yellowstone, most of the cowmen from Great Falls to Miles City, most of the dodges of calves at branding time, steers on the range, cayuses at a rodeo. He modeled and painted the "puncher's" life so well that in 1925 the Montana Board of Education awarded him an honorary...
...modeled a puncher throwing his weight on the off stirrup, helping his horse keep his feet during "The Hard Pull." In the anxious faces of horse and man, in the wrenched positions of girth and pommel, a steer they had roped and were dragging out of a bog became almost visible. The proportions and positions of Student Wheeler's first three models were indeed too natural for one teacher, who declared they had no "art" in them. But even this criticism died away when Sculptor Wheeler returned from a visit to the Messrs. Korner & Wood with a quotation...