Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Society of Orthodontists in Manhattan, Elizabeth McDowell, professor of speech at Columbia University, declared that Franklin Roosevelt's broadcasting was of unusual quality because his mouth is "built for sound"-wide jaw, low, wide, not too flat palatal arch, a tongue as wide as the arch. Miss McDowell declined to describe Mrs. Roosevelt's oral acoustics...
...this General Göring had invented a completely new uniform with what seemed to be a great white bib jutting from under his lantern jaw. With no time to change uniforms at the City Hall, he whipped off his bib, snapped on a different detachable chestload of medals, donned a shimmering white scarf across his blue-grey chest...
Shortly after breakfast one morning last week. Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes bustled into the White House office with jaw set, brow beetling. He had had a most disturbing experience at the breakfast table: his morning paper had announced that Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins was going to cut the New Deal's newest, biggest and most expensive cake, the $4,880,000,000 Work Relief Bill. What did that announcement mean? the irate Cabinet officer demanded of sleepy-eyed Presidential Secretary Early. Had the President gone back on his promise that he, Harold Ickes...
...Chicago Athletic Club played the roughest water polo game on record. Pugilist Joe Choynsky, who once fought James J. Corbett on a barge in San Francisco Bay. was the Chicago coach. After four men had been carried out of the pool unconscious, Pugilist Choynsky hit Swimmer Ruddy on the jaw. Swimmer Ruddy then hit Choynsky in the eye. A riot started. Among the spectators were Mrs. Ruddy, Anna Held. Both fainted. The Amateur Athletic Union promptly dropped water polo from its schedule until a year...
...15th, with the decision safely won, the same bravado that caused him to sign for the fight in the first place made Ambers open up in an effort to effect a knockout. It nearly cost him the fight when Fuller's right landed on the point of his jaw and a hard left opened a cut on his eye. When the bell rang, Fuller was backing away again. Referee Dempsey and two judges gave Ambers the decision...