Word: cowhand
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...horses jostled him, the bartender snorted, "What the hell y'u doin' in here afoot, anyhow?" When two friendly riders met on the trail, they stopped and sooner or later swung off their horses, squatted on their bootheels, began scratching in the dirt with broomweed stalks. "A cowhand kin jes' talk better when he's a-scratchin' in the sand like a hen in a dung heap." This was known as cow geography, from the pictures they drew on the ground...
Well-Paid Cowhand. Nevertheless, Cinemactress Garson's life is rather like that of a munificently compensated cowhand. She gets up at a quarter to 6. She is at the studio by 8. She takes time off for a cup of tea (two bags, the cream goes in first), at 4:30. She invariably stays to study the day's rushes at 6. She is home by 8. Often as not, she goes straight to bed to eat her one ravenous meal of the day-a truckdriver's helping of Irish stew or rare roast beef. Their respective...
Sculpture Plus Chemistry. When he was a boy on a Kentucky farm, Dawn used to take a cold chisel, hammer and spoon over to the creek bank and chop faces in soft sandstone. Many years later, after time spent as a sailor, dishwasher and cowhand-always with a lump of sculptor's clay in his pocket - a Hollywood studio hired him to be an Indian brave...
Later Johnny wrote I'm an Old Cowhand, On Behalf of the Visiting Firemen, Jeepers Creepers, Lazy Bones and Skylark. With half the U.S. mumbling his 42nd-Street plain chant in its sleep, Mercer moved on to Hollywood. Blues in the Night, written for a Warner Brothers musical, sold over a million copies. By last week another Mercer opus. Strip Polka (for which the versatile Johnny had written the tune as well as the words), was No. 2 on Variety's list of bestsellers. Its homely refrain...
Died. William Roderick ("Will") James, 50, cowboy writer-illustrator (Smoky, Cow Country) in Hollywood. Born in a covered wagon in Montana while his parents were on the trail, he was a working cowhand till a bucking horse injured him, threw him into writing. His mother died when he was a year old, his father was killed by a steer when he was four, and a French-Canadian trapper adopted him and raised him in the wilderness of northwest Canada...