Word: rider
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...three have had salaried jobs, one of three is now employed. >Favorite occupations: teaching, secretarial or clerical work, social work, research, writing. Among the alumnae are reliefers, a circus rider, three college presidents-Katharine Blunt (Connecticut), Constance Warren (Sarah Lawrence), Mildred McAfee (Wellesley)-a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Josephine Roche...
...taken as a baby to Detroit, where he grew up, spent one year half-heartedly studying art at Mount Union College. At 15, big and husky as a man, he quit school to roam the Southwest as ranch hand, camp cook, mule skinner, tattoo artist. He was a crack rider with the 15th Cavalry at Fort Sill, Okla. Mustered out, he married, smashed baggage at Chicago's old Northwestern railroad station, got a broken nose as a professional prize fighter, finally settled down as a machinist's assistant in the shops of Alliance (Ohio) Machine Co. His foreman...
Freeport Sulphur (which reported a net of $2,200,762, up 46.8% from 1938) owns 90% of Cuban-American Manganese Corp. The discoverer of Cuban manganese was a Rough Rider, John Campbell Greenway, later a famed Arizona rancher and copper tycoon who married a schoolmate of Eleanor Roosevelt. Rough Rider Greenway kicked up a lump of ore on a hike over a dusty Cuban road in '98, showed his find to fellow Lieut. David M. Goodrich. Easier to work than U. S. ore because it lies close to the surface, Cuban deposits were far lower grade than the Russian...
What little Jack Flinchum saw ahead of him was even more exciting: two days before he was presented with five pounds of lead weights (tied with a festive blue ribbon) to symbolize his metamorphosis from a bug rider to a full-fledged jockey, he was signed up by rich Sportsman Herbert Woolf (at a reputed salary of $20,000 a year plus 10% of winning purses). In the Kentucky Derby, Peewee Flinchum will probably ride Woolf's Prompt Pay, by the same sire as Lawrin (1938 Derby winner). His following hoped he would have better luck in the Derby...
...expert matadora-her capework equal to that of many a top-notch matador-but she is a rejoneadora (equestrienne bullfighter) as well. Earlier in the afternoon, she had given an exhibition of this ancient style of bullfighting (now seldom seen professionally except in Portugal), in which horse & rider maneuver as one, make passes at the bull and elude his charges, until they get him in position for the final thrust...