Word: daredeviling
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...Daredevil Margaret Cotter, Washington socialite who yips like a cowboy when she takes the fences, will ride her high-jumper Rocksie, a bay gelding with whom she has outjumped the top civilian riders of the U.S. (amateur and pro) in horse-show competition. Last summer she and Rocksie skimmed the bars...
What was going on at Ebbets Field last week was of interest not only to Ethel Barrymore, young Vanderbilt and the 31,000 other Ethels and Als who were lucky enough to get in. Brooklyn's fabulous Dodgers were playing a four-game series with the daredevil young Cardinals of St. Louis-a head-on clash in one of the most exciting pennant races in major-league baseball...
Tyrus Raymond Cobb, the fiery Georgia Peach whom the Detroit Tigers bought for $750 in 1905, was a daredevil base-runner, a shoestring-catching outfielder, a dazzling hitter. He could go from first to third on an infield out. On one afternoon, in six times at bat, he hit two singles, a double and three home runs. When he finally hung up his spikes, he had a lifetime batting average of .367, had broken innumerable different baseball records...
...patriotic Pearl White, this man-sized stunt was not even a good day's work. Rough-riding heroine of The Perils of Pauline, The Exploits of Elaine, other serial thrillers of the youthful U.S. cinema industry, she had weathered a thousand terrible fates. With daredevil Ruth Roland (Ruth of the Rockies, Love and the Law, etc.) she was co-queen of the U.S. sequel-cinema in the days when To Be Continued Next Week left an agonizing seven-day gap in the lives of thousands of silent-serial fans...
...straightforward-not to say, brutally frank-as its title, "The Westerner" sticks up to its neck in the woolly, daredevil days of the frontier. The location is Texas, the center of action Judge Roy Bean's "court," a decrepit saloon in which justice flows as freely as the "rub of the brush." The time is the 1860's, and the homesteaders and cattleraisers are busily warring for Lebensraum, giving Sam Goldwyn the chance of his life to shoot some gruesome pictures of burning homes and fields...