Word: wranglers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fourteen years ago Eleanor Getzendaner, a young wrangler who was riding as a jockey at outlaw tracks and country fairs, saw Elmer Gantry when he was a thoroughbred yearling on a southwestern Nebraska ranch. She tried to buy him, failed be cause the price was too high. She kept her eye on him. Few years later, after he had been wintered outdoors in a poor pasture until he was so thin and rough as to be practically valueless, she was able to buy him for a song. She found him amazingly intelligent and adaptable, soon had him trained...
...Pennsylvania Railroad. He was tied for first place in his school in scholarship. He was president of the student council in his senior year, was associate editor of the student year book, was an officer of the Latin club and the discussion club, was winner of the annual wrangler cup contest, was chief writer for the student year book, played leading roles in school dramatics, and received honorable mention this year in the Forum magazine inter-scholastic national poetry contest...
...appointed Donald Richberg chief horse wrangler. Except for direct requests for appropriations, which will clear as usual through the Bureau of the Budget,* all other Administration measures must hereafter clear through the Industrial Emergency Committee or the National Emergency Council. This meant that only Mr. Richberg, head of both bodies, could stamp a bill as an official Administration measure. The purpose of this new arrangement was to avoid such situations as occurred last year when different Cabinet members sent conflicting bills to Congress, all as Administration measures. Now when the Congressional colt begins to buck, there will be no chorus...
Beginning by raising salaries, even paying the difference out of her own pocket, "Cissy" Patterson easily ingratiated herself with her staff. She dashes to the office in an open 16-cylinder Cadillac, sometimes in riding habit, sometimes in evening dress. At her command is the vocabulary of a circulation-wrangler. Often she entertains her reporters in the magnificent house on Dupont Circle (formerly Daisy Harriman's) where the Coolidges stayed following the White House fire. Also she has bought and is rebuilding the famed Dower House near Rosaryville, Md., once owned by Lord Baltimore...
...Barnes, born on All Fools' Day in 1874, went to King Edward's School in Birmingham and to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Second Wrangler (honors man in mathematics), fellow, lecturer, junior dean and tutor. He became an inspirational, evangelical preacher, was made canon of Westminster. In 1924 Ramsay MacDonald had him appointed Bishop of Birmingham. Anglo-Catholics protested, have continued to protest. As a churchman, Bishop Barnes is as low as a sole. During one church quarrel he exclaimed that he would "not be driven to Tennessee or to Rome." To him they both represent...