Word: limbering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...role a hard one and have made our educational system a coddling process." Taking the view that gentlemen of the old schools had more chance to become gentlemen, and schooled, he recalled that his first-grade teacher "opened school with a prayer. She also kept a good limber switch in the corner...
...Toshiko Akiyoshi demonstrates that she need not rely on costume for her success. Her own songs-Between Me and Myself, Kyo-Shu (Nostalgia), Blues for Toshiko-come out with a wide, swinging, masculine beat that reminds some listeners of Bud Powell; the rhythmic ideas spin out loose-linked and limber, hazed with a nostalgic mist as delicate as watered silk. It is clearly some of the best jazz piano around...
...booming, brassy voice that all but rattled the ice in the highballs. After the rousing chorus of Anything Goes, she slipped into a slow and smoky Fine and Dandy with a voice which she seemed to have husked up from somewhere in the floor. She was clean and limber on the ballads, bouncy and loud in the jump numbers. "You expect a high, tinkling voice," said a reflective late drinker, "and she opens up and comes...
...show hardly more often than Christmas or the Festival of Music, and he is just as welcome. There are no comedians with Borge's talent for the piano, and no pianists with Borge's gift for comedy; moreover, with wit and fingers that are equally limber, he can travel first class in either company. In his second hour-long CBS appearance, Borge departed from his one-man show format, which earned him an 849-performance run on Broadway, to use a 42-piece orchestra -but he used it sparingly, and mostly as a collective straight...
Bomb & Baby Sitter. As a scrawny, limber-legged 16-year-old, Dotty earned a trip to Berlin for the 1936 Olympics. To the youngster, the games seemed unpleasantly charged with politics and crowded with chaperones. To make matters worse, she was nudged out of first place by Hungary's Ibodya Czak in a tie-breaking jump-off at 5 ft. 3! in. Dotty came home to her mother's little house in Mitcham and leaped through her days, kicking at high bannisters, skipping rope and playing netball, a British version of basketball. She accumulated more medals and trophies...