Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...branch of a tree. "I cain't fool about heah an' see yu hang thet boy," drawls Laramie. The next 327 pages tell how Laramie and the cowboy become close friends, how they rescue another cowpuncher, and how the three then hide out on a Colorado ranch owned by an Eastern tenderfoot named Lindsay. On this ranch there are three beautiful daughters, surrounded by mean, sneaking, fast-shooting, cattle-rustling, horse-stealing desperadoes...
Laramie restrains his itching trigger finger until all the cattle on the ranch have been stolen and a madcap Lindsay girl abducted. Then the slaughter is terrific. Partly confirming Professor Whippie's thesis are strange philosophical asides that interrupt the gun play and suggest that even popular romancers are sometimes troubled by the moral of their tales. Staring at the dangling body of a rustler he has just lynched, Laramie reflects: "It [lynching] was a common practice, inaugurated ... in order to intimidate cowpunchers going wrong. Not greatly had it succeeded...
...Western personality that he was signed up, eventually starred by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia, Monogram (Beyond the Sierras, The Square Shooter, Code of the Rangers). For three seasons he was a star name in the Ringling circus. On the side he owns and operates a 10,000-acre cattle ranch on the edge of a Wyoming Indian reservation...
...studios except Twentieth Century-Fox stopped work to fight the water. Victor McLaglen suffered a $20,000 loss when his sports stadium was virtually swept away by floodwaters. In her basement Lucille Ball found her wire-haired terrier swimming in four feet of water. Marooned at his Chatsworth Ranch, Robert Taylor had to ride a horse two miles to reach a highway. Shirley Temple and her mother spent the night at her studio. Milton Berle's car stalled in three feet of water over a manhole. Before the car could be started the manhole cover blew out and wrecked...
...Hearst plane, carrying International Socialites Terence Conyngham Baron Plunket and Dorothé Lewis Barnato Lady Plunket to visit Publisher Hearst's San Simeon Ranch, glided down to San Luis Obispo field in a heavy fog. The pilot overshot his mark, crashed. All three were killed. Next night, in Reno's various clubs, including Club Fortune, Mrs. Lois Clarke de Ruyter Spreckels Clinton, her divorced sugar-heir husband, Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr., and two friends toasted each other until all hours. Before dawn they boarded Mr. Spreckels' private plane to fly to San Francisco. The plane rose...