Word: limbering
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...campus to University Field. At their head was orange-bereted Marshal Melville Dickenson, portlier now than when he captained Princeton's undefeated 1922 football team. Round University Field the alumni marched in review-past President Harold Dodds and a handful of pre-1896 Tigers (their joints no longer limber enough for P-rading.) Then everybody sang Old Nassau, and settled down to watch the ballgame. As usual, Yale won; this time...
...same time a lot of things were looking up-were fine as frog's hair. The spring-legged, limber-armed postwar baseball players seemed amazing (see SPORT). So did the first few of the shiny new cars and taxicabs. Nobody really wanted to argue with Father Divine's most widely quoted conclusion. It had just taken time to get used...
...quality Housman always lacked-the pure genius for simple, limber speech, untroubled by literature. But all that can be done by lyric inspiration under literary control he did in such a poem...
...With the 1945-46 season a month old, some 85% of the National Hockey League's servicemen stars are on ice again. Most of them have Canadian Army discharges; some of them, muscle-stiffened from too much army-style road work, will need another week or two to limber up. Prospective result: the end of the Montreal Canadiens' honeymoon...
Married. Private Red Skelton, 31, limber-legged, extroverted radio and cinema comic; and Georgia Maureen Davis, 23, ex-photographer's model; he for the second time, she for the first; in Beverly Hills. Second item on the bridegroom's furlough schedule: having his tonsils...