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...Bout these fust few days thar ain't much to say 'cept keep yore tail high and don't get roped by too many saddle-blanket cleaners. They'll be a-tryin' to lasso you from every which way soon as you trot through the lines at that old barn called Memorial Hall. 'Course you'll want the Crimson lyin' on the stable step to take the blinders off yore eyes every morning, but don't let thim maverick 'Pooners stampede...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '45 Colts | 9/19/1941 | See Source »

...cushions falling that he could not go on. The next thing Lorenzo Garza knew, he was standing by the barrera and the steers were trying to take the bull away. When the bull would not go with the steers, they brought in a cowboy, but the cowboy with his lasso was no better than Lorenzo Garza had been with the estoque and they brought in the steers again. After what seemed a long while to Lorenzo Garza the bull went away with the steers. The crowd was cheering the bull. "Obscenity," said Lorenzo Garza, and made an appropriate gesture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: FOR WHOM THE BULL TOILS | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...heard. As the murals for the Amarillo post office took shape, Texas cowhands said some mighty sharp things about WPAinter Julius Woeltz. Artist Woeltz had painted cowboys loading unbranded 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 »

...submarine, wallowing on the surface, got in trouble. In 15 minutes the entire crew was rescued. The entire crew consisted of one Barney Connett, 34, a gasoline service station manager by vocation, an inventor and mechanic in his spare time.' Rescue apparatus: a speed boat and a lasso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Saved | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...cycle by burlesquing it. In The Oklahoma Kid, the current vogue of the Western is dramatically exemplified by the fact that in it James Cagney, whose cinema career has taken him as far toward the great open spaces as gangsters' hideouts, appears equipped with sombrero, cowboy suit, lasso and two remarkably effective hoss pistols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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