Word: wagoneer
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Lola Ruddy, a Manhattan model,* hitched her wagon to a galaxy: since she was part Irish, part English, part French, part Portuguese, and part Swiss, she figured on claiming the title of Miss United Nations...
...their colors flutter on Derby Day. The Downs was alive with regional prides: Marine Victory, the Maryland horse; Pellicle, Kentucky's own; and a big Texas-born chestnut named Assault, which had won Jamaica's Wood Memorial Stakes-a proving ground for five Derby winners-in wagon-horse time. Assault is known as the New York horse...
Revolving Doors. Elizabeth Arden is a dreamed-up name. She was born-in the little Ontario village of Woodbridge-with the far more implausible name of Florence Nightingale Graham.* Her father was a huckster whose eccentricity was to use only broken-down thoroughbreds to pull his wagon. Flo tried out as a dentist's assistant and a student nurse in Toronto before traveling to New York in 1906. It was a time when a woman's beauty equipment consisted chiefly of glycerin and rose water; for a woman to "paint" was almost as outrageous...
...invasion of France. Now Leigh-Mallory had good news: paratroop losses seemed to be light, and things were going fine. "Grand, said I, grand, I'll tell the boss as soon as he wakes up. ... I tiptoed down the cinder path to Ike's circus wagon to see if he was asleep and saw him silhouetted in bed behind a Western. Ike grinned as he lit a cigaret...
...hitched his wagon to the Generalissimo's star, won the rising leader's trust by tireless intelligence work for the Kuomintang Army. In 1934 he organized China's Bureau of Investigation & Statistics. In time it became one of the world's biggest undercover agencies. It planted operatives from Bali to Burma, from Singapore to Sinkiang. It specialized in espionage and counterespionage; it kept watch on Communists, foreigners. Behind the Japanese lines its eyes were flower girls, coolies and ricksha men. In the most lurid Fu Manchu tradition, it reported to Tai Li with invisible ink messages...