Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pearl Thighs and Centaur Sweat. Veronica spent most of her time horseback-riding-"the mother-of-pearl pincers of her thighs pressing the animal's flanks and blending with it in a pearly communion of centaur sweat." Betka had had a child before she left Paris: the father was probably the masked aviator, though it might have been three acrobats. But Veronica was not jealous. When she recalled her masked aviator, "her will fluttered like the star-spangled banner...
...home Catherine had hoped to find strength to start life afresh. Instead, she found a bleak world living on a dry fodder of deathly recollections - little Cousin Bessie (died, aged eight, of a sur feit of ripe peaches); Heir Jack Lewis (broke his neck horseback riding) ; Confederate Soldier Joe (one leg amputated, the other gangrenous). The Negro servants were not much better; old Maria, whose favorite son was serving a life sentence for murder, simply believed that "if people only had the moral courage to quit putting food into their stomachs the Lord would solve all problems by taking them...
...Hard-boiled and quick-tempered when the heat is on, West Pointer Somervell has long riled more ceremonious men by his disregard of red tape, his ruthless firing of officers he deems incompetent, his burning impatience with opposition or delay. His annoyed enemies call him a man on horseback...
They live the life of exiles, lonely, with almost no mail and no contact with readers, with an occasional visit to a nightclub, a frequent afternoon horseback ride in Chapultepec Park, with almost no social life and with the unremitting hunger for intellectual companionship that lives with exiles like an uninvited guest...
...chief sport was riding horseback. Once she was thrown, but climbed back on the nearest horse as soon as she got out of the hospital. She had a "planned life." She became executive director of station KPRC, a director of the Cleburne Na tional Bank, a member of the Board of Regents at Texas State Teachers College, president of the Texas League of Women Voters, Texas chairman of the Women's Committee for the New York World's Fair. In 1941, the War Department ap pointed her boss of a new women's publicity bureau...