Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...column wound up a narrow valley and topped the rise it came plump upon an encampment of Sandinistas who had bivouacked at an abandoned ranch house, after taking the elementary precaution of planting a machine gun to command the valley. Despatches differed as to whether it was the Marines or the Sandinistas who were most surprised. The outcome, disgraceful to the U. S. Marine scouting service, was a prolonged pitched engagement. Only the fact that another Marine patrol, under Capt. William McNulty was in the vicinity, and rushed up at the sound of firing, prevented an ugly outcome. Eventually...
...Albert Bacon Fall, Harding Cabinet man who gave the Teapot Dome lease to Sinclair, as "payment" by Sinclair for a one-third interest in the Fall's New Mexico ranch, which was to have been turned into a country club but still remains a ranch...
...life is his own. He sits up far into the night, practices, plays cribbage with Mme. Paderewski, stays in bed until afternoon, has lunch, makes himself ready for a concert, if there is one, does five-finger exercises hour upon hour. His hobbies are billiards, bridge, books, cinemas, his ranch at Paso Robles, California, his villa on Lake Geneva. He is sixty-eight years old, but contrary to vogue, he refuses to name this or any other tour his last...
...addition, there are influxes over both the Canadian and Mexican borders which are unrestricted by quotas. Southwesterners want no restriction on Mexican immigration, which provides cheap ranch and mine labor...
...that his mind might resemble his fists. Last week such mistaken impressions were given the lie when Senor Calles proved himself not only supple of body but adept at mellow geniality. Scene: the $375,000 private train of the President of Mexico which puffed all week, from one hospitable ranch in northern Mexican states to another. On board were the new U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, Dwight Whitney Morrow (onetime Morgan partner), and tart-witted cowboy-clown Will Rogers. They, and other guests of the President, were privileged to see him in playful mood. At Pabellon Ranch, State of Aguascalientes...