Word: rooster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Headed Rooster of the Rio Grande" lately crowed a loud, defiant crow. Last week lawyers in Manhattan and Brownsville, Tex., made ready to dispute the pros and cons of his crowing...
...Rooster is Rentfro Banton Creager, red-haired Brownsville bank president, Republican National Committeeman and Texas boss, onetime gubernatorial nominee, good friend of Presidents Harding and Coolidge, both of whom offered him the U. S. Ambassadorship to Mexico. In every way "Rooster" Creager looms large in Texas. When he read references to himself which he considered defamatory in Collier's magazine, he was not one to blench. Promptly he filed libel suits against Cottier's aggregating...
Last spring soft-spoken Editor William Ludlow Chenery of Collier's pondered Hidalgo's startling growth. Soon he despatched Writer Owen P. White, oldtime Texan, to be Hidalgo's historian. Writer White was amazed at many things he saw just above the Rio Grande. Among them, naturally, was "Rooster" Creager who, with Boss Baker, seemed to rule the Hidalgo roost. In his subsequent history, Writer White said: "It's right there [Hidalgo County] . . . that our two most stylish American breakfast foods, GRAFT and GRAPEFRUIT . . . have been brought to their very highest and juiciest state of perfection. . . . R. B. Creager...
...after, sailing with Capt. Crocker on the sloop Shadow. Then came his string of "oo" boats-Papoose (1887), Babboon (35-footer), Gossoon (40-footer) in which he beat Capt. Charles Barr in the Scotch cutter Minerva; Harpoon (1892) in which he won the Goelet Cup at Newport; and the Rooster and Crooner. He is a stern skipper; his own son calls him "Mister Adams" on shipboard...
...Hoover told Mr. Smith about a prize pig that was put aboard his campaign train. Mr. Smith replied that, about the same time, he had received an ancient, lusty-throated rooster from a trans-Mississippi admirer who insisted that it symbolized "unterrified Democracy...