Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harlem on the Prairie (Associated Features) is billed as "the first all-Negro musical Western." It brings to life a cow-country as fabulous as the vision of some Holy Roller prophet. In this apocalyptic land everybody-the prospectors and stagecoach drivers, the medicine men, outlaws, sheriff, the hero with the silver-plated stock saddle-is a gentleman of color. No attempt is made to explain how so much pigment got all over the open spaces. It is there, palpably, by a whim of the Almighty, indulged with the liberal connivance of one Jed Buell, an independent Hollywood producer...
...Yonkers, N. Y. cow pasture owned by John Reid, the golf course for the oldest country club in the U. S. with a continuous existence was laid out in 1888, and named after Scotland's famed St. Andrews. Owner Reid was its first president, and his youngster son Archie was soon permitted to join St. Andrews as a junior member. Archibald M. Reid played in eight U. S. amateur golf championships between 1901 and 1913, twice reaching the third round...
Still treating rumors of her marriage to air-minded Conductor Andre Kostelanetz as a big joke. Diva Lily Poas avowed: "In five years I quit the stage. I quit my music so I can plant my garden, so I can milk the cow...
...habit of saying 'Good show' when he means 'How nice,' or whether the unbuttoned half-Dutch ex-farmer from Africa will turn up, liable to be reminded, by the look of the fat lady on his left, of a post mortem he did on a cow." Matter-of-fact, 40-year-old, amiably bi-natured. Novelist Cloete has been both. Enlisting in 1915 in the Guards, he was wounded at the Somme so badly that he was invalided out of further service, went down to South Africa (which one branch of his family had helped settle...
...Pope, special tax investigator. Opening blast in the current squabble between Boss and Governor was fired by Boss Crump. Said he when he first heard about the unit plan: "The Sneak has the insane desire to go to the United States Senate. He would milk his neighbor's cow through a crack in the fence to accomplish that purpose...