Word: zack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fish, to ride his two Arabian thoroughbreds. Ungovernably hospitable, he loved to have his friends play on his night-lighted tennis court, to take them riding in his Bellanca monoplane (formerly belonging to Actress Ann Harding), to take them to Eureka to see his 101 Ranch show (bought from Zack Miller a few months ago), to find them jobs when they were out of work. All Emporia's colored people swore by him for his generosity. He drove a flock of cars headed by a Fierce-Arrow. When his little girl had pneumonia, he sent for an oxygen tent...
...Zachary Taylor ("Zack") Miller, onetime owner of famed 101 Ranch, was jailed in Newkirk, Okla. for failure to pay a $100 attorney fee and $40 a month separate maintenance to his estranged wife who still lives in his house. Said he: "So far as I'm concerned, it's a life sentence. I'll never pay it, for I'm broke." Two days later Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray granted him full pardon, compared his case with that of Victor Hugo's Jean Valjean, his judge with infamous Judge Jeffreys of 17th Century England...
...Campbell Bascom Slemp, Calvin Coolidge's onetime secretary, paid an election bet by shipping a ton of coal from Camden to Washington by air (cost: $147). In Louisville, one Charles Jernigan won two white chickens for his pot. In Omaha. Loser Lillian Zack carried Winner Remus Jobe down Leavenworth Street in a wheelbarrow. At Los Angeles, Hooverite Will Healy let Rooseveltian Manuel Alonzo pitch 24 rotten eggs...
...General Manager Zack Farmer of the Los Angeles Committee announced that all seats (10,.000) for the Games' opening ceremony had been sold, that the general ticket sale, ten days before the Games started, was 1,300,000 (a record). President Avery Brundage of the U. S. Olympic Committee announced that the expense fund for the 300 members of the U. S. team?$350,000?was "far short of achievement...
...physical instructor." Felix, Count von Luckner, famed "Sea Devil," mariner since he was 13, Wartime scourge of Allied shipping, went yachting on Lake Superior, was seasick. He said it was the first time. "The short, choppy swells got me." Real estate men of Pawhuska, Okla. said that Col. Zack Miller, smart publicist, was negotiating for sale of his bankrupt "101 Ranch" and Wild West show to Alphonse Capone & family; that the Capones planned to lease 40-acre tracts of the 17,000-acre ranch to a colony of Italian farmers. The show, they said, would be sent back...