Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this reduces Maggie Warren to noble penury. She sells her house and furnishings, goes with her dog, Mutt, to board at Mrs. Praskins'. W7hen humiliated into leaving she makes the gesture of committing suicide so that her life insurance will enable the bank to reopen. Wobbling her jaw, protruding her underlip and narrowing her eyes, Marie Dressier somehow makes the crude fable (written by Sylvia Thalberg, sister of MGM's Production Chief Irving Thalberg) laughable and interesting. Most vulgar shot: Maggie Warren finding out that the bottle from which she has been gulping what she thought was poison...
Even while the guns were being unlimbered the crowd could not believe the boys were in earnest. They did when plaster spurted from the walls of buildings and bullets buzzed in their ears. Eight people were killed instantly. A little child had his jaw blown away. A young man died in his mother's arms. One proud father went out to the park to see his son march with the machine gun company. He fell with a bullet through the lungs. It was different from shooting on the range. A white-faced machine gunner dropped his piece, fled screaming...
...result. Cool and chipper, an 8-to-5 favorite, he brushed away Petrolle's usually lethal right, danced briskly around the ring peppering quick little punches at Petrolle's head. As Petrolle weakened with fatigue, Canzoneri exhibited bravado. He dropped his hands and stuck out his jaw, moving it just in time to make his opponent miss. Petrolle won the seventh round and shook Canzoneri with a desperate right in the 15th. Then he wrapped himself in his Indian blanket while waiting for three judges to vote the decision, naturally and unanimously, to Canzoneri...
Squaring his jaw, Captain Kawahito first threatened, then conjured up the joys of smoking opium in warm winter clothes stuffed with Japanese yen. Probably it was the 250 Ib. of opium that turned the trick, though Captain Kawahito also paid over 130,000 yen ($30,000) and strewed winter clothing right & left. Finally the Captain received custody of the two sick, bedraggled, utterly filthy whites. "They thought I was going to die," gasped Mrs. Pawley. "That was one of the reasons why they...
...huge jaw bent into an amiable grin...