Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born Myrna Williams 29 years ago on a Montana ranch, Myrna Loy was "discovered'' as an obscure sculptress by Rudolph Valentino. Given the Madonna role in Ben Hur, she was told three hours later she was "not the type." For years she played an endless monotony of roles portraying seductive sinuosity. A stranger to Broadway, she has never been east of the Mississippi...
...Burgoo King (1932), Broker's Tip (1933). But the Colonel can, and has when Thompson was sick, trained his own horses himself. His brother John, after a career of big-game hunting and backing Explorer Frederick A. ("Doc") Cook, retired from their joint affairs to a Western ranch. Brother Garvey, onetime big-league ballplayer, was never associated with the Colonel...
...souvenirs of lessons in the art of fighting closely . . . but when he laid the upper portion of his body bare . . . there was such a criss-cross of old wounds and new ones that the Briton fled." But Belmonte is still alive. Prudent, he saved enough money to buy a ranch in Andalusia, with his Peruvian wife lives there now, a retired national idol...
...been resold four times since, for about $30,000. That her racing colors contain the same shade of blue as that of the foremost U. S. racing family, the Whitneys, is appropriate. Dorothy Paget's father. Lord Queenborough, met her mother, Pauline Whitney, when he had a ranch in the U. S. Pauline Whitney's father, William Collins Whitney, was Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland. John Hay ("Jock" ) Whitney, who has not missed a Grand National in six years and who had better luck than usual when his Thomond II finished third last week, is William...
...Later Sculptor Eraser had to have a form letter printed, of which 5,000 copies were mailed, saying that Two Guns was not the original. But the story was told so often that Two Guns finally believed it himself. Thus Two Guns grew great and prospered. He owned a ranch, leased some of his land and grew old comfortably, for he did no work. In recent years as official greater at the Great Northern hotel in Glacier Park, he was housed, fed and given two or three dollars a day. He also did very well by selling to visitors...