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Word: horseback (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leased a shop in Hackensack, opened a beauty parlor, hired operators. There she stayed on the job six days a week, from 9 in the morning till 6 at night. Pity was the one thing she shied from. In defiance of it, she played golf, rode horseback. She even devised little tricks to make her disability less grim. One was to bend over, slap her ankle as though she had a mosquito bite. Her friends forgot to pity her, laughed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Heroine | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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