Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...director, Everett Colburn, and boyish Harry Knight, a onetime bronco-rider and son-in-law of Cowboy Tom Mix. A third, also in the parade, was an Arizona cattleman named Mark Clemens, who had put up the cash to buy Promoter Johnson's string of broncos, steers and wild cows, and to send "Gorilla" Mike Hastings scouring the West for more. Scout Hastings was visibly pleased last week with one of his most celebrated finds, a bucking horse named Hell's Angel. So vicious that in five years no one has ridden him the prescribed ten seconds...
...some of his stunts from Will Rogers and has been No. 1 U. S. trick-roper so long (20 years) that no competitors were entered against him last week; cowboys trying to throw light Mexican steers, to ride huge, humped, 1,250-lb. Brahma steers,* to rope and hold wild cows long enough to make them yield a pop bottle full of milk, to mount and ride wild horses in a race across the arena; cowgirls riding broncos (with the stirrups tied down as a concession to their sex); Cowboy Billy Keen vaulting over an automobile with two horses; trick...
...this request Colonel William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan, 54, onetime assistant U. S. Attorney General in charge of trust-busting and now head of the defense's 57 attorneys, had an obvious comeback. In hope of getting convictions instead of a mere injunction the Government for the first time in a big case had used its power to conduct a criminal rather than a civil action. "Since they have chosen to institute a criminal case," stormed Wild Bill, "they must be bound by the rules that our Constitution has prescribed in order to protect the defendants when they...
...legends of Gene Fowler's newspaper life, his bawdy ballads, crotchets and Hollywood adventures, have put his career on the same picturesque level as the subjects of his antic literary works (Shoe the Wild Mare, The Great Mouthpiece, Timber Line). In Salute to Yesterday, his first novel in six years, Author Fowler legend for legend backs his own career well into the shade. A frankly sentimental salute to the brave past, evolving around the doings of a Denver die-hard pioneer, the yarn is calculated to send readers into gales of merriment and reduce them to beery tears. Cinema...
There are, to be sure, some very effective bits. The discussion of taking gold out of a hole in Brazil and putting it into a hole in Kentucky, and the wild attempts to assign a purpose to the operation, are rather trenchant, and the song "Off the Record" is a very clever assortment of Presidential confessions. Taylor Holmes, besides giving an excellent performance as Secretary of the Treasury, does as especially good job of singing "A Baby Bond." Even the songs, however, are not up to expectation, the only really tuneful one being "Have You Met Miss Jones?" In short...