Word: roarer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Girl in a Hole, the musical version of Alice in Wonderland, is a ring-tailed roarer, a rollicking, ringing, rabble-rousing, riotous revel...
...Risk. Silky's only stubborn detractors are the early-morning dockers, the stopwatch specialists who have heard him come back from a workout wheezing like an equine asthmatic. Silky's outraged owners brush off such canards. They admit no more than that their horse is a "roarer," i.e., an animal who clears his ears, nose and throat with a sound like a bull alligator with his tail caught in a trap. They have other health problems on their minds. Each of the two owners is a cardiac case...
When he died of cancer of the stomach in 1885, the old roarer left his ranch in good hands. Today, another generation of Klebergs run the Texas kingdom that has spread far beyond the adventurous boatman's dreams. The 890,000 Texas acres are supplemented by pastures in Kentucky and Pennsylvania; Santa Gertrudis cattle are raised in Cuba, Australia and Brazil. Rare new grasses are cultivated on White Horse Desert, and King Ranch thoroughbreds race on the world's finest tracks...
Patients by Air. Ochsner, actually a pleasant and sophisticated man and no hell-roarer, soon showed his skill as teacher, surgeon and organizer. Between fishing trips and serving as king of the Mardi Gras, he found time to establish the Ochsner Clinic, which he built into a "Mayos' of the South," and a hospital operated by the Ochsner Foundation. The hospital is so modern that it has its own heliport, largely to receive casualties from tidewater oil rigs. Along the way, Lung Surgeon Alton Ochsner has become a leader in the medicosurgical fight against cigarette smoking as a cause...
Downcast, he takes consolation in politics under the tutelage of a wonderful figure of fun, an editorial bull-roarer called Camacho, from whose lips "anathemas were springing . . . as from the lips of Isaiah; the triumphal palms were turning green in his hands. Every gesture seemed a principle. When he opened his arms, striking the air, it was as though an entire program were unfolding." Rubião, the gullible incomepoop, throws good money after bad journalism, and begins to dream of a seat in the Chamber of Deputies...