Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wintering with his household of nine on an Arizona ranch last year, Novelist Priestley spent an intensely ruminative 20 minutes one midnight in his writing shack analyzing himself, his U. S. travels, his possible travels in the Hereafter. His conclusions, considerably expanded and set down in Midnight on the Desert, show the familiar Priestley discursiveness, less of his easy-going humor than usual and a not-always recognizable U. S. On that night he felt like "a half-starved little coyote . . . howling to the stars...
Married. William Curley, editor of William Randolph Hearst's New York Evening Journal; and one Mary Grace; at "La Cuesta Encantada" on the Hearst Ranch at San Simeon, Calif. Bridesmaids were Mrs. Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, Doris Duke Cromwell, Marion Davies...
...Babson also winters in Florida, where, in addition to his southern Babson Park, he owns a 12,000-acre ranch. There a fortnight ago he wound up his annual winter business conference, which is a small edition of the conference he holds at Babson Park, Mass. in the autumn. It was at the 1929 autumn conference that he uttered his last warning about the impending stockmarket crash. Even Mr. Babson admits that he started calling the tragic turn several years before anything happened...
Elliott Roosevelt (second son), struck oil (500 bbl. a day) on the Ed Hughes ranch in Crane County, Tex. which he leased with Elder Brother James, John Daniel Hertz of Yellow Cab Co., Poloist Tommy Hitchcock...
...General Court of Massachusetts, and died aborning. But Nevada is not Massachusetts. Nevada is a thinly populated State where easy divorce, open prostitution, licensed gambling and legalized cockfighting are only the more luridly publicized manifestations of a free & easy, individualist spirit deriving straight from the mining camp and cattle ranch. Realism is lent to the prospect of a tax-canceling State Lottery by the fact that Nevada has already launched an arresting promotion campaign calling attention to itself as "One Sound State" which...