Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Welcome. "Welcomed to Denver by whooping cowboys firing six-guns in salvos, by knife-wielding 'Injuns,' by rough and tumble cops, clanging police patrols and screaming fire wagons, not to mention dang sweet-looking cowgirls in fo' gallon hats and white riding breeches, the delegates to Denver's most important 1927 convention were all nerves at 9:30 o'clock at the Broadway Theatre, when C. K. Woodbridge, president of the whole shebang, brought his gavel down with a resounding wallop. And then, while startled lady delegates mumbled prayers and the more timid male admen...
...hall with striped calico shirts, ruffled sleeves, flaring collars. One Saturday night, on tour, his minstrel leader asked him to compose a new "walk around" (stage march) for use the next day. Emmett frowned at the hurry order, went to his hotel, rummaged out of his trunk the rough draft of a tune he had thought up some years before. The words for the tune had been suggested to him by a grumble he had often heard on the lips of circus performers "up North" when nippy autumn nights set in: "I wish - I was in Dixie's land...
...might have won the game-except for the mad riding of tall, angular Winston F. C. Guest, who made seven of Yale's eight goals. The final score: Yale 8, Harvard 5. Yale won the championship, chiefly because Mr. Guest had played polo that was fast and sportingly rough enough for international cup matches...
...unfavorable water in their first paddle of the day and Coach E. J. Brown '96 permitted an early return to quarters, after taking his charges over a choppy upstream course for about four miles. Coach H. H. Haines did the same with the 1930 oarsmen, finding the course too rough for more than a slight workout...
...extraordinary coolness. As a detective he functioned for several years at taming the Wild West. Now he functions at pumping Wild West atmosphere into the eager balloon of his reminiscences. The verses above, quoted reminiscently, describe an oldtime bandit. Also they describe the spirit of Author Siringo, indicate the rough-and-tumble, hardbitten, gun-toting memoir on saddle-leather that this book...