Word: barebacking
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...high-bosomed, hourglass effects achieved by elastic sheaths, tight perhaps but with few corset bones or lacings. ¶ Daytime necklines are either modest V's or 'tend high and round with variations such as mannish stocks and severe, up standing Chinese collars. Necklines for evening dip to bareback and bosom-molding levels. ¶ For afternoon and evening, sheaths of rich, soft materials (velvets, velours, sat ins, soft brocades) create the new "mermaid silhouet" or "sheath line" as far as the knee or even midcalf, below which ruffles, pleats, godets and full circular hems encrusted like a birthday cake...
...several years they stuck it out, till cumulative suspicion and repression hurled Justine into the arms of a lover, and Gale to the distractions of Spain. The lover proved less satisfying than the bull-fight-not the conventional scarlet-cloaked trickery, but a duel during which Gale rode bareback, crashing down gorges, wallowing through torrents, staggering up embankments, till finally he brought the bull to its knees...
...clergy cry out with surprise. The paten (saucer), shown to the public for the first time last week, was of silver and gilt, charmingly wrought; the chalice (goblet) bore a 32 carat diamond, gift, stated the smith, of a Mrs. Howe, lately deceased. Years ago she had ridden horses bareback in a U. S. circus. And, like many another circus performer, she possessed a piety which the manner of her life gave her little opportunity to practice. After her death she wished that prize diamond of hers to be used in some tangible form for religious purposes...
...Horses! Horses! Horses!" laughed "Poodles" Hanneford, "that's my stock in trade, and I have four of them here at the theatre that I've had for years and years." The famous English clown and bareback rider, who is now doing his stuff in "The Circus Princess" at the Shubert, was talking to a CRIMSON reporter the other...
...know, it's a funny thing," he went on, still in an equine frame of mind, "most people don't realize that bareback riding is by far the most dangerous part of the circus, much more than trapeze swinging. You can get a terrific fall by landing upside down or a horse when there's no horse there...