Word: rodeos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earnest sheet, the Christian Science Monitor? Or, to face about, what could be " snappier" news writing than: " They're digging up some of the wildest riding buckaroos that ever forked a Texas bronco right here in New Orleans." -(New Orleans Item, in a story on an American Legion rodeo.) " State's Attorney Crowe and his staff of picked assistants, assigned to prosecute the murderers of little Bobby Franks, jumped into their fighting regalia last night and launched a double-fisted attack upon the defense." -Chicago Tribune. " There is one bootlegger in Oakland who will think twice hereafter before...
...Indian warfare nor even a rodeo, but U. S. poloists preparing to defend the International Challenge Cup* against an English invasion next month. Crowds along the sideboards at Westbury and Port Washington trained their glasses. The Defense Committee of the U. S. Polo Association (H. P. Whitney, R. E. Strawbridge Sr., L. E. Stoddard, D. Milburn) scrutinized closely the aspirants for the "Big Four" as they beat the willowwood balls about in practice matches three times a week...
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...