Word: tenderfoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young cowboy's courtship-which is virtually a kidnaping-of a soiled young Kansas City nightclub singer. Very slowly the clodhopper (Albert Salmi) discovers that an ounce of tenderness is worth a pound of bluster, while the audience simultaneously discovers that it is the bluster of a sexual tenderfoot. And the girl discovers that, though courted as though she were a punching bag, she is for once being thought of as though she were a lady...
...most startling example of the new Lampoon is an article by John Hubbard called Wolf in Fold. Penetrating and well-written, it is an expose of Communist infiltration into one of the least likely spots--the administration of the Boy Scouts of America. Hubbard explains how a young Tenderfoot caught one of the Commies red-handed, but the article leaves no doubt that there are still many more left...
...waved his cocked pistols at the stranger and announced: "Four Eyes is going to set up drinks." Four Eyes paid him no mind, finished warming his hands at the stove, then turned and-as both bullets went wild-knocked the gunman cold with a single punch. After that, Tenderfoot Rancher Theodore Roosevelt was affectionately known around Mingusville as Old Four Eyes...
...corral small-fry depositors, Atlanta's Citizens' and Southern National Bank twirled a new rope last week. It set up a Hopalong Cassidy's Saving Rodeo. For a minimum deposit of $2, Hoppy's worshipers got a "tenderfoot" badge and a plastic bank shaped to look like their hero. As their savings grow, so will their rank-from "wrangler" (a $10 account) to "Bar 20 Foreman" ($500). For all this, the bank paid Cassidy a set fee: 50? per new account plus $1 for the thrift kit. In four days the Citizens' National, Georgia...
...Ontario's Muskellunge Lake complained that a giant fish (estimated weight: 40 Ibs.) was ruining business. The monster reared out of the water, shaking his head and rattling the assortment of fishermen's plugs and hooks broken off in his jaws. The noise, it seemed, was frightening tenderfoot fishermen off the lake...