Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tongue-lashed by Alfred Emanuel Smith in their celebrated quarrel of 1919, et seq., the G. O. P. has grown in Hearst favor. Before the nominating conventions this year, the Hearst press boomed Secretary Mellon for President and Prosperity. When Mayor Walker of New York City visited the Hearst ranch after the Democratic convention, people said he went to make overtures; to persuade Mr. Hearst, if not actually to support Nominee Smith, at least to "lay off" him, to forget Nominee Smith's bitter contempt for him and to bury the old quarrel. Except for a series of cartoons...
...ranch near Fairfield, Calif., one Leung Ling or Loy Yeung, a Chinese cook, paid a visit. On his arrival, he took a rifle and a hatchet and killed one Wong Gee, Mrs. Wong Gee and three Wong Gee children. This done, he slaughtered Wong Hueng, whose brother owned the ranch, an old Chinaman named Low Chuck and three others. Then, in an automobile which had belonged to one of his enemies, Leung Ling set out for ways that were dark. California police, while they were perturbed, seemed less troubled than they were last spring when a U. S. youth hacked...
...hilltop of one of the many hills on the ranch, where they live, is crowned by beautiful buildings of Spanish architecture surrounded by beautiful gardens of ever-blooming, gorgeous flowers and orchards of orange, peach and cherry trees. The interior of these houses, one of which presents the aspect of an old cathedral in Southern Spain, and the other three-guest houses*-are furnished and finished to harmonize with the exterior of these beautiful buildings. Old doors and door frames, mantels, beds, tables, cabinets, priceless wood carvings, paintings, tapestries from famous places in Italy, Spain and France of the 13th...
...With this ranch and his Mexican ranch with 40,000 head of cattle, his 24 newspapers, 9 magazines (2 of which are in England) along with his moving picture industry, all of which he keeps personally in touch with, he is very busy; and if anyone thinks Mr. Hearst has much time for play or vacation he is very much mistaken...
Marcellus Hartley Dodge Jr., 19, junior at Princeton, grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller, is spending his summer Dick" on the Randall, O-T-O near dude ranch of Livingston, Mont. "Pretty One afternoon last week, a non-dude native remarked: "These Easterners don't know nothing about ridin'." Young Dodge, piqued, boarded a wild steer, rode him without falling off, conquered him. Later, he performed creditably in a rodeo...