Barnstormers

Stunt pilots were also known as barnstormers, flying over small towns and using farm fields, near barns, as runways. ❋ JAMES S. HIRSCH (2010)

If the barnstormers were the game’s itinerant preachers, the Celtics were its high priests. ❋ Mark Kriegel (2007)

But my first exposure to Joyce was in a sleepy little black shoebox theatre, where a troupe of mild-mannered turtlenecked barnstormers read from Dubliners from a stage decorated with high stools, and where I, underexposed and underage and over my head, had too much to drink and fell asleep in mid-performance. ❋ Unknown (2010)

- Bumming rock news: Washington City Paper reports that local garage rock barnstormers the Points have broken up. ❋ Chris Richards (2010)

No politicians, no football jocks, financiers, movie stars, software barnstormers, or druggie blondes with press agents. ❋ Dan Agin (2012)

* In part, this was done as a way of counteracting the prevailing view of pilots in the 1920's and 1930's as flaky, free-spirited barnstormers. ❋ Helen Davey (2011)

I know a lot of people who love Hornblower Napoleonic barnstormers, but who might be put off by the dragons: now's their chance to get drawn into this historical fiction on the sly! ❋ Unknown (2009)

The famed basketball barnstormers played on a hockey rink for the first time in their 84-year history Tuesday, putting on a show in New York's Central Park ahead of a tour of the area. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And in the Jim Jones Revue's case, there's no screamer more fit to handle the load that comes with fronting Britain's newest barnstormers than Jim Jones himself, a mop topped Englishman who can seemingly howl for days without emitting so much as a single cough. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He said the barnstormers would have better luck the next winter but perhaps without him. ❋ JAMES S. HIRSCH (2010)

But they were also teammates in All-Star contests and as barnstormers. ❋ JAMES S. HIRSCH (2010)