Word: sportswoman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...posted a $10 bond, left town. On Pennsylvania Avenue a patrolman stopped Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman, famed Washington hostess and member of the Women's Safety Committee of the American Automobile Association, charged her with driving 32 m. p. h.. carrying an expired license. Next Socialite Sportswoman Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, was picked up for driving on the wrong side of a bridge at 40 m. p. h. While Mmes Harriman and Whitney awaited trial, the police stopped a fourth speeder, collected $8 from Professor Anton Lang Jr, of Georgetown University, son of the one-time...
...performance at Wimbledon two months ago, a phenomenally large amount of misplaced attention was devoted to the fact that she won her first U. S. Women's Singles Championship in 1923. Last week at the Interlachen Country Club near Minneapolis, sportswriters failed to get similarly excited about a sportswoman whose apparent immunity to the effects of time surpasses Mrs. Moody's. She was Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare, who won the Women's Golf Championship of the U. S. for the first time in 1922 and won it last week for the sixth...
...rich bravura part, Miss Bankhead impersonates a dashing, devil-may-care sportswoman named Judith Traherne. Thoroughly rebellious, she is taken to see Dr. Steele (Earle Larimore of the Theatre Guild), a brain specialist, by her family physician who is unable to diagnose an obscure ailment of which she is as intolerant as she is afraid. Dr. Steele, about to move to Vermont and settle down to general practice, has the unhappy task of discovering that the young woman has a brain tumor which will kill her in ten months...
...Sadlier not only breeds bloodhounds but champion ones which she herself trains. Because of her husband's interest in Trollope her kennel name is Barchester. At 3 a. m. police rolled up to the door and routed her out of bed. Mrs. Sadlier is a sportswoman born; her father, Canon Albert Darell Tupper-Carey, has the sporting post of Chaplain at Monte Carlo. Shaking the sleep from her eyes she called...
...Okapi for $6,500 and Inlander for $7,200 the year before. With these bargains as the nucleus of a small stable of 39 head, Trainer Smith stepped out in 1933 and proceeded to lay the foundations for a record which is now unequalled by any other horse-owning sportswoman in the history of U. S. turf. Beginning with Inlander's triumphs in the Arlington Classic and Travers Stakes last year, Mrs. Sloane's horses have won 19 important stakes, six of this year's big races: Florida Derby with Time Clock, Chesapeake Stakes and Kentucky Derby...