Word: rodeoing
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Viscount Burnham, Chairman: "... The greatest rodeo and business roundup in the world...
...American rodeo cowboys and cowgirls made a lasting impression upon Londoners when they arrived at the capital of the British Commonwealth en route for the Wembley Exhibition. One cowboy, sitting on the hood of an automobile, yelled: "I want to rope a red-headed goil." He did, but she turned out to be a blonde, so he let her go. Every silk hat within a rope's length was regarded as legitimate prey and Londoners took it all with marked good humor. One body of men who quite overawed the excited "cowpeople" were the London "bobbies;" they were...
...American rodeo at the British Empire Exhibition is not popular with a certain section of the public. John Galsworthy, famed author, and Henry W. Nevinson, international correspondent of The Manchester Guardian, loudly condemned it for its cruelty. Said the latter: "I think that everybody who agrees with our view of the rodeo should take a vow never to go near such a performance. We should appeal to the President of the Exposition, the Prince of Wales, to say he would never go to it and that would be sufficient in itself to stop...
...AUSTIN'S RODEO." Tex Austin, it appears, is the champion manager of cowboy championships. "He always pays 100 cents on the dollar. He plays no favorites. No one ever bought, stole or ran away with a title at one of Tex Austin's contests." So reads his literature-which has been deposited by the mailman in most of the ranch post boxes of the West...
Here is something American to the core-a thing most natively American in its every attribute, sprung like the border ballads from an aspect of American life now almost completely gone, preserved for the amazement of an age well nigh as different from the age that produced the rodeo as the Court of George V is from the court of Henry VIII...