Word: jaw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theme is familiar. Gladys, a chorus girl, wants a man with money. She finds soon enough dollars are not as nice as Neil Hamilton's square jaw and swift right job to an opponent's proboscis. She gets him in three episodes...
...time-honored grudge against both shipper and lawyer. So Oliver continued squabbling, capitalizing his crippled state, trespassing on distant islands for illicit loot-birds' eggs and eiderdown which he smuggled on stormy nights to transient English sailors. "Small things and great occur, a tooth falls out of the jaw, a man out of the ranks, a sparrow to the ground...
...having travelled so far in my 92nd year," chose a startling title for his 22nd book, which he published last week. The title: The Surgical Operations on President Cleveland in 1893 (Lippincott, $1.50). Little known it still is that President Cleveland ("Grover the Good") developed cancer of his left jaw while he was stoutly persuading Congress to demonetize silver.* Dr. Keen, Dr. John Frederick Erdmann and the late Dr. Joseph D. Bryant (Cleveland's medical attendant and intimate friend) cut out the diseased bone during two operations. An artificial jaw of vulcanized rubber supported the cheek in the natural...
...whole and more especially its Radical and Socialist members, added M. Poincaré, had never been consulted by him with respect to the bill, which had originated in the Foreign Ministry, where sole responsibility must rest. Thereupon, having blandished, explained and weaseled, the Prime Minister set his firm, pointed jaw and barked that he refused on his own responsibility to alter the bill, and critics could like or lump. There was of course, he smiled in conclusion, not the remotest thought of uniting church and state...
...royal jaw is now convalescent, having been operated upon by Dr. George E. Reeves, sole U. S. dentist in Jugoslavia...