Word: lariat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earhart and Owen D. Young. Bitter because the New Deal has rejected NEA's demands for a Federal annuity to assist U. S. schools lamed by Depression, NEA's Secretary Willard Givens cracked at NYA as follows: "While a few youngsters are being taught harmonica playing, fancy lariat throwing and boondoggling, some hundreds of thousands of less fortunate ones throughout the U. S. are being denied a decent health program or are doing without a full year's work in arithmetic, reading and history...
...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...
Unable to obtain an honest-to-God "lariat" in St Louis, Buster Estes, of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Post No. 43, used an ordinary sash cord seldom missed. Madame Schumann-Hemk held her hands up as he approached laughingly said, "No, no, no, no." He obligingly refrained. Many a youngster ran along at his side cried, "Rope me, mister." Most of them were gleefully satisfied...
...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, ragged uniforms...
...from that repulsive killer. I shouted, a cold yell of horror, and my heart filled my chest and almost suffocated me. For I am afraid of rattlesnakes. Time and again today a rider got down from his horse and bat one to death with the heavy hondo of his lariat. It was a cruel and sinister country, that country of canyons and rocky gulches and rattle-snakes...