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Word: jawed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down in Arkansas"). Then a little man in the rear of the committee-room whispered to his neighbor that the witness ought to be named Mrs. Dillinger instead of Mrs. Dilling. The neighbor, who happened to be Husband Albert Wallwick Dilling, promptly uprose and smashed the little man's jaw. The hearing adjourned in an uproar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Jul. 8, 1935 | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

...Louis immediately smashed a right to Carnera's mouth. Because his careless handlers had neglected to give the hulking Italian the mouthpiece which all fighters wear to protect their gums and lips from their teeth, blood began to trickle down Carnera's jaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bomber, Assassin, Slasher | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

Baer lost the fifth round on a foul, the sixth on points. With a rare flash of his old savage form he rocked Braddock with a right to the jaw in the seventh. Then in the eighth round Braddock sent a harmless blow to Baer's chin. And, again going comic, Baer electrified the crowd by staggering about in a circle, then straightening up with a great laugh and repulsing the hopeful challenger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Champion | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...money in his pocket, Gypo, instead of completing his plan, goes on an astounding nightmare spree. He gulps down a bottle of whiskey. At the McPhillip wake, he astounds Mrs. McPhillip (Una O'Connor) by pouring four silver coins into her lap. He bashes a policeman on the jaw, harangues the crowd that gathers to applaud him, buys the company beer and chips. He creates a scene in a brothel and then completes his ruin at a Sinn Fein meeting-where he has been promised reinstatement if he tracks down the spy who betrayed McPhillip-by bringing a rash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 20, 1935 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...Pullman (Wash.) after J. L. Blalock had showed off before an auction crowd by stepping up to a bull and knocking him silly with a right to the jaw, police charged Blalock with wearing brass knuckles under his glove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 13, 1935 | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

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