Word: limbering
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...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...
...Hart Hubbard have made him famed wherever legs are discussed. But it was not expected that these pistons would perform any prodigies in the American Legion track meet in Boston last week. Mr. Hubbard needs to be out of doors to run well. He does not feel free or limber under a roof. His great black legs also prefer spikes and a cinder track to rubber sneakers and a smooth armory floor. Yet Mr. Hubbard, who holds the world's broad-jump record, won the 50-yard dash, finished second in the low hurdles, and rounded...
...Francisco by train went nine limber gentlemen from Louisville, Ky., winners of the American Association baseball championship, to play the San Francisco "Seals," who had taken the pennant in the Pacific Coast League. They played eight games; each won four; then came the afternoon that would decide everything. The "Colonels" from Louisville stiffened their backbones and bashed out four runs in the first inning. It looked as if they had won. For an inning they were lazy; then the "Seals" knocked two of their pitchers out of the box to win the game 9-8, the series...