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...cattle into a boxcar, had left out a shipping pen (cattle are never loaded from the open range), showed a lasso dangling from the wrong side of a saddle. His most glaring mistake was substitution of English-style saddles for Western. Said a bystander: "You couldn't never git a cowboy on one of them postage-stamp things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: It May Be Art But | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...value to the Army. He was made a Field Marshal in 1935, Commander of the Moscow District in 1937, Vice-Commissar of Defense last year. Although a past master of guerrilla warfare, when he cannot fight guerrilla-style he adopts the tactics of Confederate General Nathan Bedford ("Git-Thar-Fust-With-The-Mostest-Men") Forrest and relies on frontal assault. Military experts predicted last month, when he was first reported in charge of the offensive, that he would recklessly risk tens of thousands of men (but none of his own Cossacks). If Field Marshal Budenny rides into Helsinki this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Destroy the White Snakes! | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...shore war tickled ta find out this war leep yar. i yam awful bashful an i war shore hatin ter ax a boy to be a gittin hitched with me this yar, an being as how im ateen which means Ise gittin purty old which means Id best git me a man this year cause itle be fore more yars for i git a chance agin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 2/17/1940 | See Source »

...aint a gittin much larnin in this hyar kollege sose if u wants ter git hitched rite away, i am reddy. Be shore ter let me no sose i can walk home ter git pa ter stop feudin for a hour or so. aint love jist the most wonderful thing? Suzanne Adair Williams, Texas State College for Women, Denton, Texas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 2/17/1940 | See Source »

...Neither will TIME forget brainy Generals Nathan Bedford ("Git Thar Fust") Forrest, Daniel Morgan, Henry ("Light-Horse Harry") Lee, nor King Charles XII of Sweden, who rode two horses to death while reviewing a regiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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