Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patterson does not pretend to do the farming. He lets the caretaker and his wife do the chores. "The extent of my help," he gags, "is when I hold a chicken while someone doses it with an eye dropper." Usually he spends his time horseback riding, fishing in his lake or playing catch with his son. When mink began to eat his fish recently, the caretaker trapped the mink, and they are being made into a neckpiece for Mrs. Patterson...
...said by Limeños to be the world's oldest. But never has Lima known a fighter like its own Conchita Cintron, the world's greatest female torero and mistress, to boot, of the art of rejoneo (bullfighting with a short spear from horseback...
Conchita has evolved her own special act, which has been accepted by many orthodox aficionados. First she meets the bull on horse. Glacier-cool, she keeps in the path of the charging bull "until the last moment, then skillfully maneuvers her superbly trained mount aside. Still on horseback, she digs the beribboned banderillas into the bull's hide. Then she hops on to the ground for conventional cape work. Occasionally Conchita stoops and kisses the bull between the horns. Her explanation: "It is a gesture of triumph, like a rooster crowing over the dead body of its opponent...
...Horse. In a few years, he made millions, cut a wide swath on Broadway. He sank $40,000 in a play, acquired a swank Fifth Avenue apartment, took to horseback riding in Central Park and dealing with such labor racketeers as Joey Fay. In 1937 the murder of a striking sandhog labor leader, whom Sam had supposedly threatened to kill, almost toppled him from his throne. Police held Sam as a material witness, but freed him for lack of evidence...
...specially constructed chair, neck-deep in the waters of the Matanzas River, considering the landscape and the past. "I get up at sunrise. I give the orders of the day to my overseer and make the rounds of my lands. . . . Late in the afternoon I take another horseback ride. . . . Once in a fortnight I go to town to buy what I need," he wrote. "From time to time my friends come to spend two or three days with me in philosophic leisure. ... It is impossible to be more happy than I am. ... I have all that is necessary for contentment...