Word: horsewoman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Georgie was the horse-faced only daughter of a retired English army officer. Her father was a stupid incompetent with furtively amorous tendencies; her mother a horsewoman without the money to be horsey. Georgie was brought up to be ignorantly innocent, to hope that the right man would come along some day. But the War had left England a million men short, and Georgie was not attractive enough to win out in the manhunt. She tried to be in love with Purfleet, an intellectual light-weight who was cautiously attracted by her massive virginity, but as soon as marriage...
...father, a cellist; her mother, a singer) Miss Hobart was educated to be a concert pianist. Instead she became a proficient harpist. At 18 she married a theatrical scene designer, is now divorced. She is domestic, practical, thrifty; makes her own clothes, cooks well. She is a competent horsewoman, swimmer, diver...
...Excerpt from a biographical sketch (by The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography): "She has pronounced athletic tastes, is an accomplished horsewoman, swims and dives as another diversion, plays the harp, and is devoted to animals and birds. She is withal a poet and composer...