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Word: cowgirl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nobody. Then in 1934 he tied up with Greeley's KFKA, a radio station in somewhat the same situation. He caught ranchers at breakfast daily in seven States with three-quarters of an hour of weather, livestock & feed prices, good humor, a singing cowboy and a guitar-twanging cowgirl with Bar X names (Claude Redman, Esther Gibson), plenty of come-ons for the Greeley Cash Auction Market. He put his auction pit on the air twice a week, took microphones out on the range for farm sales, saw to it that the folks who turned out were not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prairie Showman | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Disney,*Okla., a string of shacks and saloons thrown up on the site of PWA's $20,000,000 Grand River Dam, last week held its first mayoralty election. Candidates were a sad-eyed grocer named Mrs. Vera Silar, who stood for law & order, and a buxom ex-cowgirl named Billy Baker, who stood for fun & frolic. Idea was to give each boss woman 30 days to try out her ideas, then incorporate under whichever regime Disney liked best. When Disney's Commercial Club tried to limit the ballot to property owners, dam hands rebelled, gave Cowgirl Baker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disney | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...Mickey," if you get there in time to see him, dashingly rescues the little cowgirl who thought she could take care of herself. His gun battles make even the old Tom Mix look like a piker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

Under the auctioneer's gavel last week went famed 101 Ranch, bringing sorrow to the hearts of many a cowboy, cowgirl, Indian chief & squaw, including onetime Cowboys Will Rogers & Tom Mix, but mostly to the heart of Col. Zachary Taylor Miller, owner, who lay abed ill with a shotgun standing in the corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shotgun v. Gavel | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

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