Word: lariat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have shot the last Shaggy buffalo on the Western plains. Pre-empted the last free land-Now it is time (I have known it long in my heart} for this country To twist a lariat of us and throw it Over the ocean-to-ocean-flinging land And flip its loop across the lifted, crashing Defiant horns of the wild American spirit And with a twist around the saddle horn Drop it to earth, and on its sprawling hide Burn the clear new-world brand that unto men Shall be a witness of our heritage Wherever that great untamable...
First a newsreel cameraman had himself lowered from the top of the cliff. Then So-Lat-Dowanee, a Mohawk Indian "chief," came dangling down in full tribal regalia, and began making passes with a lariat. The deer plunged perilously back & forth on the ledge, sending small stones rattling down into the gorge. Chief So-Lat-Dowanee, who had been confident of succeeding where the white man had failed, was ignominiously hauled back. He announced that he would go into seclusion, write a poem about the deer...
...hospitality of California's James (''Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. Monkeyshines began when their special train was playfully "held up" at midnight as it crossed the State line. At Truckee, Calif, there was a rodeo and Idaho's Charles Ben Ross exhibited his skill with a lariat, ended by roping Governor Rolph around the neck. There was a picnic near Lake Tahoe and champagne on the train from Sacramento to Oakland. In San Francisco's Palace Hotel the Governors ate off a $500,000 gold service while Communists fussed noisily outside. They gaped in awed silence...