Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then is the greatest primitive spectacle of the struggle of man against beast that the laws of our land permit. " Bronk " riding, steer bulldogging (diving from horseback to the horns of a wild steer and throwing it by the application of human leverage to the sweeping horns); calf roping; trick and fancy riding for both sexes; steer riding; relay race; and cowgirls' bronk riding are featured. There is certainly nothing on the stage; little in the movies or the prize ring; little in football or polo that can compare with this program in display of sheer force and courage...
Mussolini's resourcefulness. He will defeat Don Sturzo's party by a mathematical trick...
Next day the Tribune replied: "Mr. Bryan says we misrepresented him We'd regret that if it were true, but it isn't"-going on to accuse Mr. Bryan of using "the favorite trick of the political dialectician" and ending with the remark: "We are not quarreling with Mr. Bryan because he believes or disbelieves but because he wants laws to make other people do and think as he does...
...runaway rescue of a prominent debutante who is more potent in the ballroom than she is on a horse. Meanwhile the cultured cowgirl has roused romance in the breast of the youth next door. A"nd so it goes. The best of the acting is done by a trick bulldog named "Peanuts...
Soul of the Beast. Here are two widely different points. of appeal. One is the curious fascination of an amiable trick elephant (Oscar); the other the uncommon good looks of the heroine. Though the rest of the production be negligible, for those who have a friendly feeling for Madge Bellamy and elephants it will afford a modicum of entertainment...