Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cattle trucks, sandwiched between armed cars, those quartered at the Prison System's ten farms are taken to the '"Walls" (main prison) at Huntsville. More than 75% of the 6,500 inmates get to see the show. Those who think they can manage a wild bull or a horse "with a bellyful of bedsprings" take part. Each contestant gets $3 and a chance to win an additional $15 to $25 (first prize), $10 (second) or $7.50 (third) in the afternoon's eleven events. They also get a chance to wear ten-gallon hats, high-heeled boots...
...Prison roundup is worth riding miles to see. Rodeo fans cram into the Prison Stadium, not because their 50? admission fees go to the Prison System's education fund, but because the convicts put on a rip-roaring show. Besides routine rodeo events-bronc riding, calf roping, bull riding and wild-cow milking-there are entr'actes such as a 50-piece Prison Band, the Cotton Pickers' Glee Club and Bill ("Snuffy") Garrett, a "knobknocker" (safecracker) with 263 years to serve, whose clown act, in top hat and stripes, makes even the old prison walls shake...
...settler, a French trader named Pierre Moreau, was a bootlegger as far back as 1675. Before Indians and bears had been driven from the log village in the 1830s, gamblers, harlots, pimps had arrived. Thieves preyed even on the dead: private detectives guarded Chicago's early graveyards. Between Bull Run and the great fire of 1871 roared the first of Chicago's incredible booms, in which everything but the police force expanded. Result was Chicago's reputation in the Civil War decade as "the wickedest city...
...flatly to cut it out, sat comfortably down to dinner. Suddenly the train slowed, stopped. Willkie's voice boomed through the dining-car loudspeaker. He had sighted another cluster of voters. Dr. Barnard sighed, got up, switched off the loudspeaker so that he could enjoy his food. But bull-healthy Mr. Willkie laughed last, if somewhat hoarsely. Dr. Barnard, in the vehemence of his pleading, lost his own voice. An epidemic of colds swept the train, but Willkie stayed well...
Time was called twice while Chief Umpire Bill Summers and Indian Manager Oscar Vitt begged the fans to stop. They were in no mood to stop. Wham! A bushel basket full of tomatoes dropped from the upper grandstand into the Tiger bull pen. Apparently aimed at Schoolboy Rowe, it scored a direct hit on Birdie Tebbetts, alternate catcher, who was chatting with Rowe. Tebbetts was knocked unconscious...