Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neither distress nor surprise. In the opening of the second round Canzoneri sent Chocolate reeling with a right to the temple. Chocolate, astonished, fought his way clear. A minute later Canzoneri doubled him over with a jab to the midriff, smashed a pile-driver right to his polished black jaw. Chocolate flopped flat on his face, his legs twitching. Gamely he dragged himself to one knee, tumbled back at the count of "ten." Revived in his corner. Kid Chocolate hung on the rones and sobbed miserably over his first knockout in 211 fights...
...Master of Men" Jack Holt, as usual, displays a great deal of firmly set jaw and swelling chest. The director, I fear, has tried to calm him down; this was not a good thing to do. Mr. Holt possesses the characteristics of masculinity, and very little else; consequently, this side of his nature should be played up as much as possible. The calming down, however, has not been carried too far; he is still bull-necked Jack, the terror among strong men. The plot, appropriately enough, deals with a steel mill, in which jack is at liberty to romp with...
...eyed face of Alia Nazimova is now lined and pouched with old hysterias. Her mouth pulls naturally down at the corners. Her pictures make her look either like the bedraggled murderess at the scene of the crime or like Mary, Queen of Scots. Yet the baroque stumblings, wrist-wavings, jaw-droppings, head-wagglings with which Miss Nazimova documents Doctor Monica seriously involved Manhattan audiences in a play that should have been a dull and outdated feminist tract...
...Radio Pictures hesitated to inflict it on audiences until more successful brethren had been forgotten. Engines roar, sputter, machine guns bark, and planes go down in flames, but the only redeeming feature is Richard Dix. Even worshippers of the red corpuscles however, might be induced to pity, the protruding jaw and the twisted snarl, which, has already been used to such advantage, when its ineffectiveness in one asinine situation after another, is dangled before the eyes...
Freed for once from the embarrassments of his own campaign (see p. 21) the Mayor was superb. He stuck out his great jaw and roared questions at Herr Spanknoebel till the latter cringed in embarrassment. In random efforts to pronounce his name he called him "Spanknoobel," "Spanknoodle" and once "Stoopnagel...