Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most colorful of leathers, but these otherwise well-dressed horsemen rode in their stirrups bare-footed. The traditional square dances, queens, representing the two orders of society, football games, and sweetly melodious marimba concerts in the moonlight were all features of the ceremonies. Particularly impressive, though, were the bull-riding contests, held in a special plaza and attended by a large audience, which in breathless excitement, watched the infuriated bulls buck their riders, who stuck tenaciously to the smooth saddles and used spurs vigorously without a thought to impending danger...
Came another period of depression. He went back to Dutchess County, gave up painting, went into politics, ran for county sheriff. Having his own ideas of practical politics he eschewed such devices as bribing the electorate with drinks, kissing babies. Robert Winthrop Chanler bought a bull, the finest bull he could afford, and serviced all the farmers' cows gratis. The bull not only won him the election but kept him in the State Legislature for six years. He left politics when his brother "Loulou" was defeated for Governor of New York State by middleaged, ginger-whiskered Charles Evans Hughes...
...college songs coming out of them as the time for the race drew near. I was wondering if Oxford and Cambridge had any college songs. Also there was a dearth of organized cheering. It seems that they have no organized cheers in the English universities. At one point near Bull's Head Tavern I did hear a gentleman wearing the Dark Blue colors exclaim in a well modulated shout. "Well rowed, Oxford!" but immediately afterward he seemed to feel that he had forgotten himself and lapsed into silence...
...face down to the lighter, gave it a flick. A terrific flash followed which permanently blinded both his eyes. With his wife's assistance he continued his law practise. She read him the cases; he argued them in court. In 1914 the backwash of the 1912 Bull Moose movement carried him to the House of Representatives as a Progressive...
...Bull-necked Richard Shikat, called wrestling champion of the, world in New York and Pennsylvania: a bout with Ferenc Holuban, Hungarian, who lay writhing on the floor beyond the ropes, fouled by one of Shikat's headlong lunges, while the referee gave the match to Shikat. Annoyed by the decision, the crowd rioted, charged the officials, were pushed back by police, entrenched themselves behind benches, throwing bottles, refuse...