Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alert sons, one of them a Yale history instructor. The sons hurried back to Uniontown, got the case reopened. After an autopsy the coroner made some surprising discoveries. His first examination, said he, had been so hurried that he had failed to notice eleven fractured ribs, a fractured jaw, fractured nose, hemorrhage of the brain, hemorrhage of the throat and internal hemorrhages. After a three-day investigation Pennsylvania's Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti concluded that Frank Monaghan had been "barbarously and brutally beaten to death in an effort to obtain a confession from...
With an appealing tremble of her lower jaw, Miss Swarthout, smartly dressed, sings several songs. None of them is notable. Whatever merits Champagne Waltz possesses are dependent on the well-seasoned comic abilities of Jack Oakie, cast as Happy Gallagher, manager of the band. Badly befuddled by the ways of Europeans, Gallagher wanders through elaborate settings making remarks like "60 feet away you can't tell them apart and 60 days later you don't care. . . . All women drive you screwy except your mother and she drove your old man screwy." Best musical number: dream sequence of Johann...
Died. Peter Norbeck, 66, South Dakota's onetime (1917-21) Governor, long-time (since 1921) Senator; of heart disease complicated by cancerous tongue and jaw; in Redfield, S. Dak. Insurgent Republican agrarian, he early advocated the equalization fee and debenture plans for U. S. farm relief. He got Republican President Coolidge to spend his 1927 vacation in the Black Hills, in the 1936 campaign switched to Democratic President Roosevelt...
...general judiciously chosen. The flavor of each man's remarks is fairly well indicated. The diverting little skirmish between the President of the University and the Governor of the Commonwealth, though not reproduced with all its spice, is indeed there. Mr. Curley is not shown thrusting out his pugnacious jaw, but Mr. Conant is happily depicted connecting with...
...carrying on for her brother Arthur in a way she could not have dreamed 20 years ago, Rev. Lydia Gruchy will remain in Moose Jaw until assigned a pastorate...