Word: tomboys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Limeños remember Conchita as a wiry tomboy who, at eight, learned riding from the great Portuguese rejoneador, Ruy da Camara. He taught her also the bullfighting art, first in Peru, later in Portugal, where she appeared in a ring at twelve. For eight years now she has fought in the big time-in Spain and Portugal, in Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru...
...Muscle Moll. There is little question that Mildred Zaharias is still the world's top woman athlete. But she is no longer the rough-&-tumble tomboy (or "muscle moll" as some sportswriters preferred to call her) that she was in the days of the 1932 Olympics. That was an era when her specialties were baseball, basketball and track. Now trim, athletic and 32, she carries 145 Ibs. gracefully, wears silly hats, nylons and red fingernail polish when she dresses...
...skinny tomboy with red pigtails she liked to romp over to Grossmama's, where amateur violinists and cellists sawed their way through Brahms and Beethoven while writers on the local German-language newspaper argued politics and were kept from quarreling by matriarchal Grossmama ("her strength lay in her gentleness"). At mealtimes, as many as 30 sat around Grossmama's huge table to eat her Sauerbraten, Hasenpjeffer, herring salad and Torten and Kaffee stollen. "We had a gemütlich upbringing," says Traubel. "Our theory was 'lucky is the person who is happy...
...almost every day ever since she was nine. Her mother, a gym teacher at Los Angeles' Jefferson High School, put it there. Pauline is convinced that her mother set her playing tennis "to get me off the streets and doing something more ladylike." She was a tree-climbing tomboy. Every night when her father came home, Pauline and her younger brother greeted him by walking down the street on their hands. Papa complained once: "I wish I could see those children right side up once in a while...
...Bradley this spring for $50,000. Now, with her record winnings, Busher's tomboy days are numbered. Mayer hopes that she will get motherly after she is bred to his 18-year-old Australian stallion, Beau Pere, next year...