Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jess Willard, huge anachronism of the ring, struck a blow for middle-aged men. The blow landed flush on the point of Floyd Johnson's jaw in the closing seconds of the eleventh round of their fight at the New York Yankee ball park. The force of Willard's fist lifted Johnson off his feet and he dropped like a dead man. He was unable to answer the bell for the twelfth round. Willard, 42 years old, had knocked out the best of the young heavyweights, a man young enough...
From the viewpoint of championship fighting the exhibition was a failure. It proved that Floyd Johnson lacks a punch. In the ninth round Willard dropped his gloves and allowed Johnson to pound his jaw with everything he had. When the desperate blows bounded harmlessly from the old man's head the truth was out. Johnson can never be a champion...
Some lonely sword-swallower will be happy when he sees that advertisement ! " Wanted," again, " lady who has had experience in Iron Jaw...
Anna Gluzman, 25, Russian " shooting judge ": "I am thus described by American newspapers: 'A cigarette held firmly between tight lips, fire of enthusiasm in brown eyes, slim, short, brown wavy bobbed hair parted on the side like a man's, jaw stern. Rough high boots, black skirt, workman's blouse, old brown sweater, only ornament a Communist badge...
...Getter. The apotheosis of the various correspondence courses on Selling Your Own Personality." Energetic twaddle with T. Roy Barnes as the monotonously brisk young salesman who starts out with nothing but a firm jaw and ends up with the president's daughter and a stucco mansion...