Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baron Renfrew, alias Great Steward of Scotland, Lord of the Isles, Earl of Carrick, Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Prince of Wales, arrived at Quebec incognito en route for the "E. P." (Edward, Prince) ranch in northern Alberta...
...Point. Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart is responsible for this example of the cowhide drama. Out of her holster of dramatic tricks she has drawn a sheriff, a self-sacrificing female with crimson propensities, a leading man with amnesia. Her action takes off in the East and lands on a ranch. It is all naively melodramatic, thoroughly preposterous, terribly exciting...
...cowboy championships. "He always pays 100 cents on the dollar. He plays no favorites. No one ever bought, stole or ran away with a title at one of Tex Austin's contests." So reads his literature-which has been deposited by the mailman in most of the ranch post boxes of the West...
William Randolph Hearst, largest individual landowner in Mexico, has filed a formal protest with the State Department at Washington against the threatened seizure of his Barbicora ranch of 333,000 acres by the Farm Commission of the state of Chihuahua...
...Hearst's manager, William Ferris, spent a month in Mexico City, negotiating with the Government, and left abruptly. On Mr. Hearst's visit to Mexico, he appealed to the American authorities to prevent new taxes on his 1,000,000-acre ranch, extending through the three states of Vera Cruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas. Taxation was levied on the Vera Cruz portion alone...