Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that I thought it well to make a swing around the circle. It was altogether unnecessary." He told the story of the New York chef who hastened out to the Midwest because "some big butter-&-egg man of those days" informed him there were "millions of bullfrogs" on his ranch. "He knew that because he heard them filling the night with their ke-dunking. Well, you know the rest. Like the lone coyote-like William Allen White-like several other of our institutions in this great Mississippi basin-he found that there were exactly three bullfrogs who were making...
...stead. "He is practically a whippoorwill in his ability to forecast death, especially the death of an eminent citizen." Generally considered Manhattan's most colorful as well as ablest city editor. Stanley Walker fulfills the first requisite of a Manhattanite by having been born elsewhere (on a Texas ranch), its second by living outside Manhattan (at Great Neck, L.I., where he keeps his wife, two children). Short, wiry, cigar-smoking, a demon for work and night life, Editor Walker knows a good deal for one so young (33) about his adopted city. Though he sees through its mundane glory...
TIME neglected any mention of the splendid entertainment at Anacacho Ranch, the beautiful estate of Ralph W. Morrison 50 miles from the Mexican border. It was here that Will Rogers put on a real rope-twirling show:, taking a glass out of Amon Carter's hand and throwing Airman Vidal and Treasury-man Roberts, two former football stars. Here also Jim Farley rode a horse for the first time, he said, in his life, getting on with some difficulty while a secretary held his watch. Will Rogers rode the same horse, Edna May's King, retired undefeated champion...
Died. Mary Louise Cecilia ("Texas") Guinan, fiftyish, famed night club hostess; after an operation for ulcerated colitis; in Vancouver, B. C. Born on a potato ranch near Waco, Tex., she left a girls' school to become a rodeo performer, appeared in early western films as ''The Female Bill Hart." In Manhattan, she caught step with the tempo of the Prohibition-Prosperity era, found she could pack her gaudy hotspots by treating her customers with brassy insolence. She had a battalion of attorneys to keep her out of jail for prohibition offenses. Her star waned with the dawn...
When the Colonel was 14 he ran away from home and worked from ranch to ranch. By the time he was 21 he owned a ranch of 70,000 head of cattle and employing 90 men. "I admit you couldn't do a thing like that nowadays," he said, "even in the west; it takes more than brawn and snap judgment to start in business today, edication seems to be becoming necessary in all fields," he said in speaking of his ranching business...