Word: cowhand
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...known to her attendant as Daisy. In 365 days Daisy produced 38,606.6 Ib. of milk and 1,420 Ib. of butterfat. That was equal to nearly 18,000 quarts and 1,750 lb. of butter.* Daisy was milked four times every 24 hours by Carnation's able cowhand, Carl Gockrell, who also milked the former world's champion milk producer in 1920 when the old record was set. To that cow Carnation erected a statue. Born nine years ago, Daisy was sired by Carnation's Matador Segis Ormsby, rated the greatest bull that ever lived. Twenty...
...wish to respectfully point out a slight error (slight, my foot, a very grave error), in reporting the American Legion parade. On p. 15, Oct. 7 issue I quote: "The Nebraskans had a cowhand with a lariat." Since when did a ripsnortin' Wyoming cowpuncher resemble a Nebraskan cowhand...
...nine-hour grand march last week were the delegations from U. S. possessions and territories. Honor of heading the state contingents went to Arizona for the year's percentage of increased memership. The Floridians marched behind a bathing beauty carrying a stuffed alligator. The Nebraskans had a cowhand with a lariat. Assistant Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring led the Kansans, decked with their native sunflowers. The lowans startled the crowd by parading under a mass of tall cornstalks. The parade was not without its grimmer side. The veterans from Chattanooga, Tenn. marched in the same kind of filthy...
...Congressmen who made grief for other Speakers, but also about an unusually vigorous crop of newcomers. The House has a new clown in Representative Percy Gassaway of Coalgate, Okla., who wears cowboy boots, talks loud about fist fights, poses interminably for pictures and calls himself "OF Gassaway, the Oklahoma cowhand...
...become president of the University of Pennsylvania, sent his husky post-débutante daughter to a dude ranch in Wyoming. The rancher said he had orders to see that she got everything she wanted except money. After one year on the ranch,. Virginia Ewing Gates left a cowhand holding her horse, hiked off. Announced her father, positively: "She is motoring home." Last week, clad in white slacks and a man's shirt, Daughter Virginia hitchhiked into Boise, Idaho, with one Dan McCafferty, onetime wrestler, mechanic and taxi driver. Her story...