Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Towards the end of the game, a new Harvard team was sent in. After Jarek dribbled the length of the court for a score, the game developed into wild passing and fouls, and no further goals were made...
Died. George Miller, 48, farmer-millionaire, joint owner of 101 Ranch and 101 Ranch Wild West Show, of skull fracture, in an auto crash near Ponca City, Okla...
...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, killed by monoxide gas, less than a year ago. Surviving is Brother Zack Miller...
Circus. To thousands of U. S. citizens the 101 Ranch Wild West Show represented the embodiment, the incarnation of that vanished West in which cowboys had not become associated with drugstores and Indians were not graduates of Carlisle. Many a European, too, saw the 101 Ranch Show, doubtless gained from it the impression that travelers in the western portion of the U. S. trembled before the tomahawk and the six-shooter. Begun informally, casually, when the Millers permitted some of their cowboys to perform at a local fair, the 101 Ranch Show grew into a circus that netted the Millers...
Fling book and pencil with a wild desire...