Word: stepper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earth did you take that old nag? Look at my coolie! There's a high stepper...
...Yankees were stepping into good jobs. Highest stepper was dark, barrel-chested, 30-year-old ex-Sergeant Joe McChester Carthy, Yank's managing editor for three years. Before the war he was a $40-a-week Boston sportswriter, later a racetrack pressagent. Recently he was offered and took a $26,000-a-year job as an editor of Hearst's Cosmopolitan...
Trotting enthusiasts are not much on betting, but they know their bosses. Even knee-high railbirds knew last week that E. Roland Harriman's Florimel, winner of last year's Kentucky Futurity, was the fastest stepper in the bunch. She had stepped a mile in 2.03½. But Florimel had shown a tendency to "break" (break her trotting gait) when she got nervous, and a Hambletonian winner must beat its rivals not once but twice...