Word: cowboys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis shoe factory welcomed a new mail-order customer: Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie, who sent along an outline of his feet and ordered a pair of brown "cowboy-type strollers with a silver-toned buckle" and a pair of black winged-tip dress shoes (size 7^ C) which he had seen advertised in a U.S. magazine...
...show opened and closed with Skelton flat on his back on the stage. In between, he got his head caught in a grand piano, beat his face with a microphone, shot himself in the foot. Making their TV debut, his rogue's gallery of radio characters (DeadEye, the cowboy; San Fernando Red, the crooked politician; Cauliflower McPugg, the punchdrunk fighter; Klem Kaddiddlehopper, the Irish tenor who is neither Irish nor a singer) reached a new high in uninhibited clowning...
Those happy days were eight long weeks ago, before Barbara got a second look at Actor Tom Neal, a 37-year-old cowboy actor and onetime amateur boxer. The first look had been disappointing. "Last year, Tom and I have a date." Barbara explained a few weeks ago. "and he's playing it real nothing, you know? I think to myself: What have we here, dear? From then on, I avoid...
...slice. ¶ Choate Webster, 26, of Lenapah, Okla. and his horse Popcorn, permanent possession of the $5,000 Sam Jackson silver trophy; at the Pendleton, Ore. Roundup. For the third year in a row, Cowpoke Webster topped the field in steer roping, calf roping, and bulldogging, became the first cowboy to retire one of the most coveted awards of the rodeo circuit...
Even Texans are impressed at the size of the 800,000-acre Matador Ranch, second only to the King Ranch (950,000 acres) in the U.S. Matador is so big that a cowboy can ride 56 miles without leaving the main ranch; its roundup goes on all the year round. Matador had another distinction: it was not controlled by Texans, but by thrifty Scotsmen in Dundee...