Word: stableman
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...little girl could be given a pony ride by her aunt Kay, and the virus of horsewomanship enters her blood, and thereafter, every Saturday morning for the next 12 years, I must drive her to Foxcroft Stables and watch Emmett, the chain-smoking, bourbon-soaked stableman, help my child up onto Crimson Blaze, who gallops away, leaping over hedges and fences, and after 15 minutes, I need a powerful tranquilizer, the kind they'd administer to a horse. Or a little girl could pick up a hockey stick and sense its potential for violence, and thus 10 years later...
...miracle happens just as the soldiers are stringing Azdak up. The Grand Duke, restored to power, names him judge, and Azdak challenges the accepted idea of justice by simply inverting it. In one case, for example, a stableman is accused of raping a farmer's daughter; Azdak lays the blame on her. "Do you imagine you can run around with a behind like that and get away with it in court?" he asks. "This is a case of intentional assault with a dangerous weapon...
...from hard-riding country gentlemen for portraits of their favorite mounts. They were rarely disappointed. Such Stubbs champions as the Marquis of Rockingham's yellow sorrel, Whistlejacket, or the handsome grey, Gimcrack, are not only first-class paintings, but display an accuracy of detail that the most critical stableman still finds unexceptionable...
Hatter or Poet? Keats never had things easy. His father, a stableman, died when Keats was nine, and his mother remarried, unhappily. The boy's guardian was a stern merchant who mistrusted poetry on principle, and thought John would be better off as a hatter...
Thomas Augustus Watson was a livery stableman's son, a shy boy who roamed the woods declaiming poems to trees and stones. He got a job in a machine shop where young inventors brought their work. His interest in voice culture brought him to the attention of Bell, who was teaching deaf-mutes in a Boston school. At the time Bell was tinkering with a "harmonic telegraph" by which he hoped to send several messages at once over the same wire.* The two men accidentally discovered that the tones and overtones of a vibrating transmitter reed could be carried...