Word: corrals
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...Pards, the Fall round-up is hyar agin. The herd's a-gatherin' 'round the old corral jest like she allus has. Seems it's purty near the same thing every year-lot o' the old 'uns ain't 'round no more, but a flock o' fresh stock is in, 'rarin' to go and creatin' a pile o' fuss per usual. This hyar piece is aimed at the latter (that's a two-bit word.) Mebbe so some of us old nags can fork you young colts of '45 a little solid horse-sense afore you go throwin' shoes...
...schooled in politeness and courtesy. ... It was considered smart by some, after World War I, to be rude. Just when manners seemed to be improving, along comes your magazine, grabs Grandma Literary Digest by the seat of her inner chaps, and throws her clear out of the literary corral. Then your writers began spitting through their teeth to show how smart they were and began to splatter us with them there grammer...
...past four months, the major networks have scrambled desperately to be first on deck with a program for the 16,316,908 draft eligibles and their families. Last week CBS put on a show designed not only to corral this made-to-order audience but also to be spotted opposite (and stymie) Radio's Number One Boy Jack Benny, who attracts upwards of 11,000,000 families of listeners for NBC each week. Known as Dear Mom, the CBS show is patterned after Ed Streeter's Dere Mable letters of World War I, is sponsored by Wrigley...
...Some 48 A. F. of L. unions are concerned in one way or another with show business, including those of the teamsters, upholsterers, costume workers, floor coverers, ornamental iron workers, bartenders. Last week 20 of them joined in a superunion: the Combined Theatrical Amusement Crafts. Its announced purpose: to corral the rest of the 48. Its president is Vincent Jacobi of the stagehands' Theatrical Protective Union No. 1. But observers wondered whether behind the scenes ambitious George Browne might be trying for tsardom again...
...same studio and director (George Marshall) who made Destry Rides Again, attempts to repeat that highly successful picture's formula of saddling a horse opera with a fresh script, riding hell-for-leather with a good cast. When elegant Kay Francis is discovered perched on a corral, counting steers and fluttering her false eyelashes at buckish Randolph Scott, the parallel with the picture which revivified Marlene Dietrich with a draft of Western air is unmistakable...