Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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West, favored to win at odds of 2-to-1, has on its team two of the three 10-goal players in the U. S. Cecil Smith played his first game ten years ago. Before that he had schooled horses on a Texas ranch, | where his employer taught him the game, gave him mounts when he improved sufficiently to go to Meadow Brook. The 10-goal handicap he got last winter was the reward for his performance in the first East-West series. Elmer Boeseke, the other 10-goaler, is the biggest high grade U. S. poloist...
Chained (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) ends with a scene on an Argentine cattle ranch where Mike Bradley (Clark Gable), Yale 1926, is living with his divorcee bride, Diane (Joan Crawford). Diane opens a letter from the husband (Otto Kruger) she has just deserted and says to Mike: "Richard has gone to Maine for the summer." Mike Bradley's reply is intended to reveal him as a young man of generous and perceptive sentiments. "That's great," he says. "We'll send him some fancy beef for a barbecue...
...much to him. I am sure he will be happy here ? now. The future must work itself out and it will. I just cannot bring myself to talk about these things that lie so near to my heart." For the weekend Fairbanks drove off alone to his ranch near San Diego, thought better of it, sped back to Pickfair to get his wife...
...office DeMille has a bearskin rug. Its purpose, he says, is to trip visitors so that he can test their poise. In his mansionesque Paradise Ranch, he has an immense Wurlitzer organ which he cannot play. He collects jade, says, "The greatest luxury I have is the ability to dress in clean clothes complete from the skin out every day." His favorite pastime is sitting on the bottom of the ocean. To this end his 106-ft. schooner Seaward carries a special 80-lb. helmet and metal shoes. Says DeMille: "It's a great way to keep in condition...
...that even before he was gored Belmonte had such weak legs that he was forced to invent a special technique that made him the darling of the 20 nations that are the Spanish-speaking world. Besides, was he not operating a vast and apparently thriving olive farm and brood ranch in Andalusia...