Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...operation described by Dr. C. Edmund Kells of New Orleans, whereby a decayed tooth in an inaccessible part of the patient's mouth may be pulled, the caries removed, the tooth repaired while the patient goes about his business or pleasures, then later the tooth replaced in the jaw processes. There the roots make connections and presently the implanted tooth is functioning properly...
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. is not modest. Boast he does, in his editorial columns, in his very news columns. Last week he made his way into other news columns. He was in Baltimore being treated for an infected jaw, which he told the newspapermen was a result of gassing in the War. The jaw did not prevent him from announcing...
...persistent dyspepsia, which had made nutrition insufficient for "his active life, had been an incubus to his strength. Food he swallowed he could not assimilate.* Indirect feeding, and his powerful will-to-live, sustained him until that day. That Saturday morning the death passion set in. To his sagging jaw, as he lay propped up on his white pillows in the clinic of St. Jean in Brussels, a sad nursing sister held tenderly the rubber tube from the tank of oxygen standing on the bedside table. Consciousness did not leave him entirely. He saw facing him on an opposite wall...
...moderate intelligence and average personality, achieved international fame by getting himself convicted by the righteous state of Tennessee of having "taught evolution" out of school books approved by that state's educational authorities. It is six months since lavender-gallused Clarence Darrow hunched his shoulders, thrust his jaw and tortured the late William Jennings Bryan with satiric courtroom questions about his faith in Holy Writ. Six months since pamphlet-scattering mountebanks, itinerant fanatics, land-sharks, pickpockets and cheap-johnny "scientists" jostled in the steaming streets of little Dayton, Tenn. Six months since the nation's press bawled daily...
...happened to know them. We mention that last possibility for the sake of those who think this reviewing job is any snap. There's nothing so disconcerting as to be waked up at four in the morning by someone who wants to take a sock at your jaw. We had hoped there'd be a few cripples in the cast to make nasty remarks about, but they all looked too healthy to take a chance on. All joking aside, the four named above were most entertaining...