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...Lockwood 3L., F. M. Shea 3L., M. H. Forst 3L., E. L. Hunt 3L., O. G. Hoss 3L., and Walker Lewis 3L., will compose the thirll year Law team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE CRIMSON SQUASH TEAMS TO PLAY TODAY | 1/21/1928 | See Source »

...They gave me some clay," he said, "and some flowers, and they told me to model the flowers. Well, li'l flowers are all right but Ah ain't got no interest in flowers, so Ah took mah clay home and made me a hoss, and ever since they been lettin' me make hosses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cowboy | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

Student Wheeler of the Cleveland Art School was virtually graduated the same day he matriculated. When they saw his first "hoss," his instructors recognized that he possessed instinctively, and could execute, most of the knowledge they could impart in a lifetime. With no model other than mental images of his favorite pony, "Morgan," and a long-legged, lean-jawed man in a gallon hat and leather chaparajos he worked up models full of tense horse-and-man action in which every muscle, strap and stretch of skin strained perfectly or lay in lifelike ease. So thoroughly did he know what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cowboy | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

Burr, Burr, what has thou done? Thou, has shooted dead great Hamilton. You hid behind a bunch of thistle And shot him dead with a great hoss pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: High Times | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

...great hoss pistol. (Page 12, column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Apr. 27, 1925 | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

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