Word: broncho
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wild West were made for each other, and it was love at first sight. The first real feature movie ever made, The Great Train Robbery (1903), was a western that introduced to the public a man who soon became the first of the great horse-opera heroes: Broncho Billy Anderson, a studio janitor who was drafted as a masked bandit. Hard on Broncho Billy's tracks came William S. Hart, a Minnesota farm boy who grew up among Indians. He rode a beautiful paint horse named Fritz, and when they stood side by side, it was hard to tell...
...Cowboy Sir: Fie on the reviewer of The American Cowboy for referring to Dr. Frantz and me as "dude professors" and "vicarious vaqueros" [Nov. 14]. I was riding an Indian pony and not "grabbin- " leather when I was "going on" seven, and I have broken more than one broncho. Furthermore, we don't the cowboy, and we believe that and the reality are inseparable...
...reminiscences. Recalling how he had teamed up with Jesse Lasky and Cecil B. DeMille to grind out Hollywood's first full-length feature film, The Squaw Man, in 1913, Pioneer Goldwyn chuckled: "What a trio to go into the movie business! I had seen one movie-something with Broncho Billy [G. M. Anderson] chasing a train. Jesse and Cecil had never seen any!" After Director DeMille had inexpertly filmed The Squaw Mart (with Dustin Farnum and Winifred Kingston) under inadequate stage-type lighting and shipped it off to New York, Sam Goldwyn ruefully telegraphed: "Film awful. You show only...
...Juan Hill. He ran successfully for governor of New York and Vice President of the U.S. while bands blared A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, and admirers extravagantly told of his exploits (Finley Peter Dunne as "Mr. Dooley" wrote: "In Wounded Knee he busts a broncho that has kilt almost th' entire male popylation; busts it so har-rd 'twud dhraw a baby cerredge without wakin' the occupant...
Most optical instruments use lenses, mirrors or prisms to coax rays of light. This system works all right for microscopes and telescopes but not for the long, flexible probes (gastroscopes and broncho-scopes) that physicians use for peering into human stomachs and lungs. To permit the peerer to see around irregular curves, the instruments have to be packed with many small lenses, which absorb a lot of the light. Unless the field of vision is very small, the image is badly distorted before it reaches the eyepiece...