Word: bronco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the Britishers it will be quite an experience for few of them have ever seen a horseshow with 200 cowboys and cowgirls competing for world championships in bronco bushings, sicer roping and other neck cracking events. Feature star of the show is Gene Autry, who is reported to hold great appeal for these seamen...
...started because bowiegged, lively Dr. Shaw once coached a championship football team at Cheyenne Mountain. The school has not played football since. Dr. Shaw decided that football success made prigs of his boys and he hunted for more wholesome pastimes. He tried bronco-busting, riding, skiing, gliding, eventually chose folk dancing, at which girls could play too. He made it appeal to boys by adapting lusty, swinging cowboy dances. Today most of his high-school students go out for it. To make the first team of eight couples, which annually goes touring with Dr. Shaw, is as good as earning...
...threnodic '30s he wrote best-selling proletarian novels so much better than the professional proletarians that people did not realize what they were. Critic Robert Forsythe had to apologize before recommending The Stars Look Down to readers of the Communist New Masses. But the art of trending, like bronco-busting, lies in knowing when to fall off and catch another horse. The Keys of the Kingdom finds Author Cronin firmly riding a trend that promises to go forward by leaps & bounds-the trend back to religion...
Henry Ford is a U. S. symbol of many meanings: mass production, low cost, high wages for workmen, the open shop. In the eyes of the New Deal the last makes him a maverick. Like an unbroken bronco who has roamed the plains in absolute freedom, Henry Ford had gone his way; many times the New Dealers had almost lassoed him, but never quite. This week the old mustang appeared to be roped at last...
...Wesleyan 13-7 Will win this one St. Mary's California 14-7 Bears still groggy Michigan Michigan State 20-7 Hail to the victors valiant Ohio State Purdue 26-13 A track meet Cornell Colgate 13-0 Ithacans too smooth U. C. L. A. Santa Clara 10-7 Bronco busters...