Word: ranchman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...road to Ponca City, Okla., last week, two motorists halted at the sight of an overturned roadster. They found under the car the body of a man, his head pinned beneath a front wheel. On the way to a hospital the injured man died. He was George Miller, millionaire ranchman, oilman, farmer-man, circus-man. With his death passed the second of the three Miller Brothers whose 101 Ranch was famed throughout the Southwest, whose 101 Ranch Wild West Show was famed throughout the world. Col. Joe Miller, onetime head of ranch and show, was found dead in his garage...
...parts in "The Orange Comedy" by Gilbert Seldes '14, produced in the fall of 1926, and in the modern version of the "Taming of the Shrew" which was staged last spring. In "The Chisholm Trail" last fall he made a hit in the character of Tom Stevens, the excitable ranchman who furnished the principal comedy relief...
Another St. Louis-Harvard man is Frederick Augustine Sterling. He was a big ranchman and woolen manufacturer until he was 35, when he began his diplomatic career at Petrograd. Since then he has toasted monarchs and men at Peking, at Petrograd again, at Washington, Paris, Lima. He has been second in command of the U. S. embassy in London since 1923. In 1922 the Irish Free State was founded. Last week the Secretary of State announced his appointment as first U. S. Minister to that part of Ireland which is governed from Dublin. Many an Irish-American was vexed that...
...down only 10 to 40 feet. Finally, he pounced upon a sink hole they showed him only a few hundred feet from the white cow's sulphurous swimming hole. This hole was only just big enough to admit the body of a cow, but a local ranchman had lately dropped a small herd of dead cattle into it one by one. That accounted for the white cow, and the white cow appeared to prove the subterranean cavern theory of the subsidence. Geologist Lambert warned that the cavernous area might extend widely, lying perhaps under the town of Sharon Springs...
...Ardmore, Okla., one Ethel Hindman, ranchman's daughter, at the request of cinema photographers and before the marveling gaze of 4,000 yokels admitted at 25 cents each, stood up on the wing of an airplane, leaped into space, curved down 40 feet to cleave the waters of the city lake. The force of the impact split her bathing...