Word: tex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nominated in 1940 will you vote for him?" "Of course I will- but let me tell you something, mister, if the damn Yankees up North don't quit voting the Democratic ticket they're going to ruin this country!" SCOTT SNODGRASS San Angelo, Tex...
Past the furrowed water of the Potato Patch, where the Atlantic currents sweep around Coney Island into Gravesend Bay in New York Harbor, seagoing, 23-year-old Cowboy William J. ("Tex") Langford poked the nose of a $100 put-put in which he had sputtered down from Boston. Moored just off the pier he tied up to was a slim, long yacht hull. The masts were off her, she could have done with some swabbing, but to Tex's longing eyes she was a jimdandy. To a benign-looking stranger gazing off to sea he said so. Then things...
...hours later, still yawing slightly in this unreal course of events, Tex had in his otherwise empty pockets the ownership papers to the 63-foot Winnetta, a 35-year-old schooner which in her $75,000 prime had once raced her sticks off on the Great Lakes, in more recent years had been the little-used property of fiftyish John S. Nairns, an inventor preoccupied with developing an airscrew for propelling ships. Inventor Nairns had sold the Winnetta's motor, but he still had the masts and sails in storage. Last week, lucky Tex scrubbed and buffed away...
Every year at this time the local townsmen sally forth with the late Tex Guinan's greeting on their lips and welcome the Harvards back to Cambridge. They spend all summer thinking up indispensable accessories to the up-to-date undergraduate--banners, magazines, furniture, statues of John Harvard and the Lord knows what--and ten dollar bills don't go far in Harvard Square...
...Fort Worth, Tex., he accepted a sombrero and said: "This is the nearest thing to Jimmy Walker [his playboy predecessor] that I've ever...