Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later she seems to relent. She has Jencic take her to the Arcade. But this is only to excite jealousy in Louie, her latest. Dark and dapper, Louie steps up to Jencic, who just stands there like a block of wood, patient and talkative. Louie punches him on the jaw. Sitting on the sidewalk, hulking Jencic looks up with sick eyes, whispering...
Like many another boxer he plays much golf. He likes cinema and has spent much time studying movies of Jack Dempsey's fights. He wears a gold wristwatch with a black silk band. In his upper jaw he carries two large adjacent gold teeth. When he speaks he gesticulates gracefully...
Ezra Cornell was the leading miller and mechanic of a hamlet called Ithaca on Lake Cayuga. He had little book-learning, much patience and a jaw which his six-inch beard could not hide. He was a Quaker. He had made a fortune (for those days) by his own industry and originality...
...eyed Stanley Baldwin, Britain's Prime Minister. While the Bishop prayed, Prime Minister Baldwin mumbled in response and read through his own speech, preoccupied, apparently oblivious to the solemnity of the occasion. Prayers over, he mounted the rostrum. Cocking his head on one side, shooting out his under jaw, he began...
Scanning the bench, an inquisitive eye moving to the right, comes to rest upon a large man in the last high-backed chair. Attention is fastened by his breadth of black-gowned shoulder, breadth of fore head, breadth of jaw. Other Justices break in to ask attorneys questions, but this one sits silently intent upon the argument, his square chin cupped in his palm, his elbow propped on the table before him. His light blue eyes are small, concentrated, penetrating. His dark brown hair, quickly parted on the left, looks slightly disarranged. He is Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, the junior...