Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maverick signed Texas' declaration of independence, fought in its war with Mexico, served in its Congresses, helped it join the Union. Just 100 years ago this month he was sworn in as second mayor of what is today the nation's southernmost big-little city, then the cow-town of San Antonio...
...think the oldtime stunts, such as putting a cow in the chapel steeple or taking the president's buggy apart, were much more fun," he declared. "However, I think the college boys of today study harder . . . of course, the freedom of discussion and study given students can be carried too far, but I don not think it tends toward socialism. It is an important part of the educational process...
...Cody last fortnight and shot down two pursuing peace officers (TIME, March 27), lay waiting and watching one day last week. They had sentenced him to six months in jail for shooting a bull elk out of season, threatened him with ten years more for killing a beef cow. Now they wanted him for double murder. A posse of peace officers under Sheriff Frank Blackburn was down below, coming up to get him. Well, they never would. Not for nothing had he sat through two showings of the movie Jesse James. This was his country, the Beartooth Mountains. Here...
...Marvin Scaife '39, the impersonations of Bayard Clarke '40, and the exaggerated rhumba of Charles D. Dyer III '39 and Peter Pratt '40 that the play derives its humor. And it must be said that these specialties, and particularly a conversation which John Johansen '39 carries on with a cow, come as a welcome relief from the almost too-perfect, too-beautiful body of the play, which in places occasions the audience a little embarrassment...
...cause: a cow, which had leaped from a cattle car as the freight backed into a siding, fell beneath the wheels, derailed two cars in the path of the express...