Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cool-sighted. His calm view comes partly of his studied concern always to see both sides of Problems: partly, it may be due to the fact that the Norrises have brought up several nephews and nieces, kept open house for a dozen others who swarm uninhibited over the Norris ranch at the foot of the Santa Cruz mountains...
...Lazy A ranch at Santa Susana, Calif., Producer Buell started filming the first all-midget photoplay ever made. He had troubles. The flaccid little people tumbled off ponies, had trouble handling man-sized six guns, had attacks of temperament and sunburn. Finally, at a cost of almost $100,000 and many a headache, the film was finished...
...neighbors gladly waived normal objections to strayed or visiting flocks, begged the honor of his birds' attendance at dinner on the ground. So hearty was the welcome, so vast the offered meal, that Farmer Thrasher got up a rolling roost, trucked his capacious hens and gobblers from ranch to ranch...
Last week, after the show, Artist Coze prepared to sail for America for a visit to Indian reservations and to the Cheyenne rodeo in July. When he returns, the Club de Lasso may found a dude ranch. so that Parisians may ride hard across the mesas of the Loire Valley or along the buttes of the Midi...
...because of the long line of winners he has sired. In fine fettle and raring to go, Budweiser IV was counted on to smash the 13 ft. 5 in. mark set last year by Emmett Dalton, a mud-colored hoptoad reared on the late Will Rogers' Claremore, Okla. ranch. When the leaping subsided, it was announced that not Budweiser IV but the 1936 winner, Zip, had broken the world's record, hopping the mighty hop of 15 ft. 10 in. He was promptly acclaimed the jumpingest frog in Calaveras or any other county...