Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zinoviev, the onetime "Right Hand Man" of M. Stalin, was expelled during the summer from the potent Communist Political Bureau. M. Stalin, astute, inflexible, omnipotent, has chosen to dictate alone. Why? The look of this Georgian does not suggest a spirit so awfully and terribly aloof. When his stern jaw relaxes he can and does smile with a kindling light in his eyes. But searing experience has shown the man of steel that Russia must be driven, that only one man can drive. Recently Death took from M. Stalin the especial goad which he had set to spur Russian labor...
...that universities are now recognizing orthodontia as a dignified science and that the average dentist earns more than the average doctor (Dr. Leuman M. Waugh of Manhattan); that adenoids, mouth breathing and thumb-sucking mess up the arrangement of teeth (Dr. Percy R. Howe of Boston); that an underslung jaw and prominent chin does not of necessity indicate strength of character but simply that the individual's mother kept his thumb out of his mouth when he was a baby (Dr. W. Stanley Wilkinson of Melbourne, Australia); that all children should begin to have their teeth straightened between...
...base for false teeth, but that failed. With $35 capital, Mr. Adams founded Adams & Son, chewing gum manufacturers, which merged in 1899 into the American Chicle Company, capital of about $2,000,000, producers of sticks of "health-giving, circulation-building, teeth-preserving, digestion-aiding, brain-refreshing, jaw-developing, soul-tuning chewing...
Young Publisher Vanderbilt soon set his visitors right. He had been to Europe primarily to ask plastic surgeons to cure his jaw of a war-gas infection-which they had failed to do. The interviews he had obtained were "incidental," simply the result of his "reportorial instinct." (The visiting reporters nodded, impressed.) He had flown about Europe, seeing Lloyd George in England, Briand and Caillaux in France, Mussolini in Italy, Pilsudski in Poland, and the onetime Kaiser himself at Doom. The one-time Kaiser had been bitter towards the U. S., had blamed General Pershing (with whom Publisher Vanderbilt...
...called him a coward . . . offered to demonstrate that the wrist under a slave bracelet may snap a real fist into his sagging jaw and teach him respect for a man even if he prefer to keep his face clean. . . . This is not publicity. He overstepped all bounds of decency and right thinking. I will go back to Chicago and give him what he deserves. Only one thing can prevent it-he may be feeble, or old, or too young. . . ." Once more the head was bent. "I am waiting," said Mr. Valentino...