Word: rancher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bonds for like reasons, and gave wads of these bonds to Albert Bacon Fall, the Secretary of the Interior who leased him Teapot Dome, not as a gift but to buy an interest in Fall's ranch in New Mexico. There was the same Fall son-in-law, Rancher Mahlon T. Everhart, to testify how this ranch transaction was made...
...with truth and vitality. Poems have been first part on his programs but songs have come before the end. He pulls up a chair, takes his guitar, strums a measure or two and then will come the woeful, repetitious story of a moaning Carolina Negro, the whoopees of a rancher. Some will come to him after the recital, and ask him if he has ever heard "the other version of that last one he sang," or tell him he should go down to the end of the town and "hear the old nigger lady who moans...
When the resolution was proposed, only three gentlemen present exhibited much surprise. The first of these was one Louis Henry Francisco. No one had invited Mr. Francisco. He had just "dropped in," he said, from San Diego, Calif. He described himself as a rancher, a rich man, an intimate of laborers, bankers, clergymen. He had, he said, solved all the country's economic and international problems. He was, he said, the originator of the so-called Dawes Reparations Plan. He, Louis Henry Francisco, was, he insisted, the man of the hour, the long-sought, the logical, the "most available" candidate...
Though he shuffles off with a chorine of the Manhattan Follies, she cannot bring herself to marry a princely cattle rancher of the prairies, whose great heart and expansive properties are spread at her feet. She finds herself completely subject to her first, trashy love; follows him through his glimmer of success and his nights of degeneracy, hopelessly, happily enslaved by a pair of stuffed, checked pants...
...Stanfield, once a millionaire sheep rancher, neglected a bill of a mere thousand dollars? Perhaps one reason is "The Boar's Nest," famed Washington gambling institution closed a year ago, where Mr. Stanfield's poker is said to have cost him some $250,000. In spite of such unfavorable publicity, he leaves Congress with many friends, who admire him as a gentleman of impulses...