Word: roundups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last Roundup. Fresh surprises cooked by Adolf Hitler were expected to be served when and if Sir John asks this week whether Germany is prepared to return to the League of Nations, sign the Eastern Locarno Pact and adhere to an all-Europe pledge to resist "unprovoked air aggression" (TIME, Feb. 11). The British Foreign Secretary then returns to London, while the Lord Privy Seal speeds on to Moscow, Warsaw, and Prague...
...Johnston (p. 63, Oct. 22, TIME) he is correct in his pronunciation of rodeo. It comes from the Spanish verb rodear?to circle?and rodeo merely means roundup. All Texas and Mexico so pronounce the word, but California, for no good reason, calls it Ro- day'o, probably the Iowa pronunciation...
...though it has since become better known than Prescott's, started nine years later. Long before any of these, rodeos were part of fiestas in Mexico. There are now over 400 places in the U. S. which hold annual rodeos. Most famed are Cheyenne Frontier Days, the Pendleton Roundup, the Calgary Stampede, Fort Worth Rodeo, the Cowboys' Reunion at Las Vegas, N. Mex. Originally, rodeo events, like riding '"outlaw" horses and roping cattle, were tests of cowboys' ability to perform their chores. Spectacular frills arrived later. A Negro cowboy named Bill Pickett introduced steer-wrestling some...
Just off the coastal juncture of Virginia and Maryland lies small, picturesque Chincoteague Island. Sportsmen know it as a good place to go for fishing and duck-shooting. And once a year, during its Volunteer Firemen's Carnival, Chincoteague stages the East's only wild horse roundup. Last week came this "Pony Penning...
...answer to reports that the police and the United States Immigration Bureau would conduct a wholesale roundup of "reds" incidental to solving the Worcester bombing case, the Communist candidate for governor of Massachusetts, John J. Ballam, issued yesterday a statement denouncing the action as an unfair attempt to discredit the Communist party and other working class organizations. In view of the patent hostility, Mr. Ballam was probably justified in insisting that the Communist party is, by principle, opposed to terrorist activities, and that therefore it cannot be held responsible; but mere reiteration of this dogma will hardly serve to assure...