Search Details

Word: jawed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Like a dentist trying to get his pliers into the mouth of a terrified, wriggling patient, Louis stalked around the ring watching the bobbing head and flailing elbows of Uzcudun. waiting for the moment when the Spaniard's jaw would offer a fleeting target. The moment finally arrived. The blow that ended the fight was the sort that a fat bartender lays into an objectionable drunk. Its progress was slow, inevitable, evident to all present. It laid Uzcudun flat on his back. It also opened his cheek, drove one of his teeth through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Incident in Schedule | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...picture is charged with unintentional humor. Richard Dix brings this out when that grim square jaw of his goes into action and he tells Madge Evans, blinded wife and bereaved mother, "Kiss me and tell me to go back into the tunnel." But everybody knows that the fault is in the script, and Mr. Dix, with years of variegated experience behind him, is easily the best...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/20/1935 | See Source »

...against the new. And the old order started back in the years B. C. It is pretty well organized now, and it isn't just last-ditchers who will stand by it. The teeth of legislative acts will be set in firm gums and a square, matured jaw. Dartmount Daily

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/18/1935 | See Source »

...bicycle, then back up rapidly with profuse apologies only to bunt her again, if she had managed to get to her feet. After that, apologizing still more profusely, he would help her up, then send her spinning with a black eye or a clout to the jaw. In no case did Lance Corporal Mortimer make immodest advances and never was he drunk. The story told by Mrs. Alice Series, the first woman Mortimer bunted, made police think her slightly cracked. They could no longer doubt it, however, when the same story was successively told by Miss Nellie Boyes, Miss Lillian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death to Mortimer | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...coffee, buying him a heavy bullet-proof vest. Her indignant belief that his attentions to the female spy are nothing but a wanton flirtation finally lands them in a trap where the dapper lieutenant saves Joel from gunfire by knocking her down with a blow on the jaw, almost precisely as Powell did to Myrna Loy in The Thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 4, 1935 | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

Previous | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | Next