Word: limbering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lagniappe'' (Sept. 23, p. 13), easily a dollar's worth of word and unfortunately not included in many abridged dictionaries, recalls Mark Twain who, in Life on the Mississippi reported pickling up an excellent word, worth traveling to New Orleans to get-"a nice, limber, impressive, handy word-'Lagniappe.' They pronounce it lanny...
...jockey, rose, shook himself, remounted and rode on to finish second. Billy Barton has been in England since autumn waiting for March 22. A few weeks ago, after frosts that kept the turf hardened, he was taken to Tenby, on the sheltered southern coast of Wales, to limber up in the sands. Now he is pronounced fit although there were rumors last week that he was coughing and would not run. Eleven years old, a gelding, he was bred in Kentucky but not to race for steeples. He began as only a fair sprinter and passed through several hands before...
...where a woman stood, telling them nonchalantly when to stop and go. One lazy, spavined creature growled at the woman with perfunctory rage. Then he and another tiger pounced upon her and lay on top of her biting the woman with their yellow teeth and slapping her with huge limber paws that left two-inch grooves on her arms and bloody ruts across her face. Almost before the people in the audience had time to scream, the lion tamer came over from the next ring and rescued the lady from the tigers...
...Limber Quartet, three-fourths made up of Uncle Alf's sons, crooned native spirituals. Old-time fiddlers jiggled out old-time favorites. A quartet of Negro bell hops shuffled, sweated, grinned...
...Bogart's Knob, just before midnight, more than 100 blooded hounds pointed long noses into the crisp, still air, sniffed, caught the scent, were gone. At their head, gallantly leading his last hunt, ran "Old Limber," Uncle Alf's famous fox-follower, whose picture once adorned in Nashville the State Capitol's walls. Baying excitedly, their notes cutting through the silent woods, the dogs circled. They closed in, relentlessly, on their furry, red prey...