Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when I was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury." All this was vouchsafed to Philip Schuyler, of Editor and Publisher, who said of Mr. Vanderlip: "The onetime President of the National City Bank of New York has turned crusader and his zeal is boundless. His eyes snap and his jaw is set. He is angry and his talk is earnest, although not hyster- ical" It was also revealed that Mr. Vanderlip was on intimate terms with Senator Wheeler, whose committee he is assisting. Among the leading Washington correspondents 'described as "high-grade messengers," are: John W. Owens of the Baltimore...
Firpo vs. Reich. In Buenos Ayres, Luis Firpo knocked out New York Al Reich by a blow to the jaw, in the first round. Twenty-five thousand South Americans cheered their champion's "absolutely last appearance in the ring...
...York, speaking before a political gathering of women, exclaimed: "And the cowardice of their [scandal investigators'] attacks reached its culmination when Mr. Vanderlip assailed the reputation of a dead President who could make no answer to those accusations. What Mr. Vanderlip needs is a punch in the jaw to bring him back to a realization of a proper sense of values." Mr. Vanderlip wrote young Mr. Davison a letter, saying: "I am an old friend and admirer of your father and knew you when you were a small boy, and I was pleased when I heard some time...
...Sampson entered the ring together. Sampson has a weaving, elbowing way with him. Breitenstraeter was no Goliath. The first round was fierce. The second round was a great muss and Breitenstraeter was knocked down. In the third round Sampson swung a great blow at Hans Breitenstraeter's jaw. The umpire bent over Hans' prostrate form: "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, kaputt...
...fight was held in the River Platt football field, Buenos Aires, attended by 35,000-a record for the Southern Hemisphere. Lodge went down on the strength of two rights to the jaw and a left to the stomach. He took the count with his eyes open...