Word: lassoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When young (36) Mario Lasso was Mexican consul general in Chicago, by appointment of his uncle, Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, he took personal care of tourist-card applications filed by particularly pretty girls. That was how he met his second and present wife, tiny, blonde Flora Dancy, 24, of Clinton, Ind., whom he brought back to Mexico last fall when he returned to run Uncle Ezequiel's presidential campaign. Says Flora of husband Mario: "Yes, a great wolf...
Galo Plaza Lasso, Ecuador's Ambassador to Washington, worked closely with the U.S. delegation. But he delighted correspondents by reviving that conference perennial, the striped-pants story. After reporters had smoked out a State Department memorandum recommending pin-striped pants, Ambassador Plaza announced: "I've told everyone in the U.S. that I've never worn them, and I certainly don't intend to start now." The A.P. quoted a conference...
...worry about. "When ah dies, ah's comin' back to haunt you." Roped In. Off a San Francisco beach, Mrs. Georgiana Churchill was floundering when she was discovered by a mounted beach patrolman, who galloped to within 100 feet, brought her to shore and safety with a lasso...
...cute brunette. You ask her to dance. She accepts with a charming smile and a "lasso" gleam. Now try to get rid of her for that terrific blonde who just walked in. See what I mean? It's a little more difficult than Radar, isn't it? There, you can always turn the dial or something--but now you'se stuck. Congress says...
...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...