Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl Jellicoe, Wartime Commander of the British Grand Fleet, underwent in London an operation on his upper jaw bone...
...been squashed like a sardine tin. The Bremen, world's fastest liner, was forced to crawl for two days at five knots per hour, pouring oil on the water. In mid-ocean a gigantic wave set the ship nearly on its beam ends, knocked two teeth from the jaw of Monsignor William McKean of Bernardsville, N. J., broke the right thumb of one "Peppy" d'Albrew, Broadway tangoist. At that instant Col. Sam Park, famed socialite U. S. Vice Consul at Biarritz, was being shaved by the ship's barber. Only the barber's steady hand saved him from instant...
This reasoning brought a loud rumble of protest from the square jaw of Hon. William Edgar Borah, Chairman of the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...Washington, D. C., Rosie Giles, 27, who weighs 250 Ibs., struck one Ellen Commer, 13, in the jaw because she was sitting on the Giles bench in the House of Prayer revival tent. A patrolman arrested Rosie but she sat down, refused to budge, had to be removed by reserves...
Louis XI was no picture-book king. He had "a long ugly nose . . . a pair of oblique eyes too deeply set, thin lips, a powerful jaw . . . a jutting chin;" was less than middle height, bald, thin-shanked, shabbily dressed. A great talker himself, though direct and blunt, he required others to be the soul of brevity. Like many autocrats, he preferred plain people to the aristocracy. His favorite hat, high-peaked, shapeless, banded with leaden images of saints, was famed. But once at least he ordered a new one. He wrote to his General of Finances: "I have forgotten...