Word: limbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Auburn Street almost any time, and pull up a cracker box. When not on the courts, coaches Jack Barnaby and Dick Dorson spend most of their time in the shop, discussing strategy with their players or demonstrating a new slice backhand--to the imminent danger of life, limb, and the surrounding show-cases. Squad lists and tournament draw cards litter the room, for this is the indoor center of Harvard's tennis and squash activity...
...Philadelphia last week, some 75 experts of the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol held a symposium on the evils of drink. With scientific gusto they tore The Drunkard limb from limb, laid bare his heart, brain, blood, stomach, nerves. They shook his family tree, examined his jail record, dissected his education, wagged their heads over his abuse of Wife & Child. As they drifted out of meetings and refreshed themselves with cocktails, many of the experts confessed that they had no idea of how to cure The Drunkard. Some doctors thought it was a chemical job. Some criminologists said...
...effect and picturization rather than spontaneous expression. But probably what makes old-style ballet so sterile is the fact that this is primarily not a dancing age: that is, it is an age in which one dances not to express emotion, but for recreation. The motions of the human limb per se do not have aesthetic meaning for us. So that there is something a trifle anomalous in the sight of the Russian ballerina pirouetting and pointing, performing entrechats and arabesques in many a graceful convolution, all to sketch out some ethereal emotion which might better be conveyed...
...George is a very sincere guy and has done an awful lot--more than most of us realize--to promote interest in good jazz music, particularly around these parts. But every so often he puts himself out on a limb with some childish statement like the above: and an apology generally results a few months later. For instance, a while back George had some rather disparaging remarks to make about The One Inimitable Band Around Today, for which he subsequently apologized. Now that's all fine, as one seldom sees such downright honesty in a critic. However, it seems...
...Harvard Roosevelt Club, on the other hand, went even farther out on a limb, placing its estimate as between 325 to 350 for the Third Term...