Word: limbering
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Watteau's greatest painting was the one he had to do to be received into the French Academy. Five years after he had promised it, the Academy lost patience and gave him a month. In seven days Watteau dashed off the Embarquement pour Cythère. Again, to limber up his fingers, he painted in eight days the famed signboard for the decorator's shop of his friend Gersaint, which somebody later cut in two. Frederick the Great, however, picked up both halves...
...attend with special Pullman-loads of friends & associates as of old, it looked like old times when the record crowd of 60,000 citizens and notables arrived in full force. Six horses were scratched in the morning and early afternoon, including the Pacific Coast hope, Riskulus. leaving 13 limber-legged thoroughbreds to spring from the barrier as the crowd uttered one vast shrill: "They're off!" Mata Hari, Charles T. Fisher's filly, broke fast and led to the first turn, Sgt. Byrne closing swiftly. Jockey Don Meade went to the outside with Colonel Edward Riley Bradley...
Only the lightest of clothing was in order at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon when the Varsity squad turned out in trunks and athletic shirts. The players took a couple of turns around the field to limber up and then were given a short drill on a defense against passes. Following this the teams lined up and went through a signal drill. A scrimmage had been on the schedule but the heat forced the squad to strip...
...with 10-in. teeth and ears 1 ft. long. He has a rubber nose, glass eyes as big as tennis balls. His furry outside is made of 30 bearskins. During his tantrums, there were six men in his interior running his 85 motors. Naturally no such monster would be limber enough to wrestle with a tyrannosaurus. Most of Kong's fights were photographed in miniature, some of them in "stop-motion"-using models of which the positions are minutely changed after each exposure, like the drawings in an animated cartoon...
According to D. M. Sullivan '33 at a late hour last night, the following notice had been posted on the billboard of the Military Science Building: "The Limber Club--There will be an organization meeting on Friday, December 3, in the basement of Memorial Hall at 6 a.m. First call at 5.45, assembly at 5.50. General John J. Pershing, retired, (D.O.L.) will address the candidates on the burning question: 'Why do the Limbers always lead the Caissons, and by how much...