| 词汇 | that damned cowboy |
| 词源 | that damned cowboy. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, who had been a North Dakota rancher from 1884 to 1886 and formed a cowboy “Rough Riders” unit during the Spanish- American War, became president of the United States in 1901 when William McKinley was assassinated. Political boss Sena- tor Mark Hanna’s comment was “Now look, that damned cow- boy is president.” |
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