Word: horsewoman
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Long before anyone was aware of her ability as an artist, Mrs. McCormick was recognized as an experienced horsewoman She is a Master of Hounds (the Du Page Hunt near her place at Wheaon), rides every day. In winter she and the Colonel go to Aiken where she hunts, he plays polo. Interested in other art work than her own, she has in her Chicago town house what is considered one of the finest collections of Moderns...
...steeplechasing, flying, helped develop swanky Arlington Park Race track, interests with which he did not allow his connection with the Merchandise Mart (Marshall Field's wholesale branch) gravely to interfere. Last winter, aged 26, he took to wife Ella de Treville Snelling of the Boston Snellings, a smart horsewoman and fancy ice-skater. She made him give up steeplechasing. Last week James Simpson, Jr. made known his new interest. Backed principally by himself & wife, he announced that he was a candidate for Congress in the North Shore district. He has a country place near Milburn, west of Waukegan...
...estate of Mrs. John S. Phipps was sore disturbed one day last week. It became aware that it was being pursued by a pack of hounds. The hounds were the Aiken Beagles, a well-bred pack of 14 couple owned and hunted by Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, famed horsewoman and mother of polo-playing Thomas Hitchcock Jr. Behind the hounds rode Mrs. Hitchcock and a granddaughter, eager for a morning's sport. Presently, the Phipps rabbit became aware that it was no longer being pursued, that the hounds, far behind now, were barking at something else. Had the rabbit been...
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...