Word: tenderfooted
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...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...
...Marcos had told them. Instead of the one "small hill" that he had reported between them and Cibola, they found almost impassable mountains. Machetes had to be used to hack a way along roads he had called "good." But Marcos remained cheerful. What seemed like outrageous hardship to the tenderfoot caballeros was easy going for the hardy friar, veteran of long treks through Peru and Central America. Besides, he had his secret. The royal road to riches he had talked about back in Mexico City had been only a come-on to hasten the expedition. What Fray Marcos sought...
...look over the 41-year-old cheechako (tenderfoot) who was to take his place...