Word: bronchos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large cast two members stand out: Nydia Westman, as a flip but honest showgirl, and Clyde Dilson, as a suave but unpleasant Chicago gunman. There is also a knife-thrower who knows his business and a bucking broncho that isn't afraid of a first-night audience...
...Poem. Rustic Homer and urban Virgil used roundly to invoke the muses before composing an epic. Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, however, narrowly and specifically invokes the "American Muse," by crying, "you are the buffalo-ghost, the broncho-ghost ... a friend, an enemy, a sacred hag with two oceans in her medicine bag . . . and you are . . . the cheap car parked by the station door. . . ." A brief prelude concerning the Yankee slaver that bears its black cargo of misery to America, and quickly the artist sets himself to the stupendous task of setting the panoramic scene, North and South. From...
Thomas W. Pelham, Vice President, Gillette Safety Razor Co.: "Waves leaped high, smote windows and doors on the upper decks, tore loose booms. The British White Star liner Majestic bucked like a colicky broncho. Said I upon disembarking at Manhattan: 'The safety razor business is good all over Europe, and I am bringing back an order for 50,000 razors for the Kaffirs of Africa. The Kaffirs sell them to the tribesmen of the interior. Apparently they have grown weary of shells and glass as shaving tools...
Three other pictures have been secured: An "Aesop Fable" in animated cartoons; another action picture of "Broncho Busting"; and a Ben Turpin comedy "Three Foolish Wives", a burlesque of Elinor Glyn's "Three Weeks". No pictures will be shown until about 8 o'clock, but the returns will start coming in over the special wire at 6 o'clock and will be continued as late as the audience desires. The Crimson Ramblers Orchestra will play during the program, which will be open only to Union members...
...showed that patches of broncho-pneumonia had developed in the right lung. The President's condition was pronounced serious...