Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secretly married Kathryn Alberta Riley, 37, who had nursed him back to health. In 1920 Lackaye paid a visit to John J. McGraw, during which it was claimed he insulted Baseballer McGraw. Lockaye said that McGraw put out his right hand in friendship, then struck him on the jaw with his left. After the fracas Lackaye nursed a broken ankle, had McGraw suspended from the Lambs' Club...
Next day Mayor McCloskey hustled out to Camp McCloskey, popped a heckler in the jaw, exclaimed...
...East Orange, N. J., Joseph Wooten yawned mightily, dislocated his jaw, was taken to a hospital. While an attendant was leading him down a corridor, Joseph Wooten felt his jaw lock. Frightened, frantic, he jumped out a window, killed himself...
Into a Brooklyn police court was haled Tess Gardell, 300-lb. Italian soprano who performs as Aunt Jemima in radio and musical comedy. She was charged with assaulting (jaw, glasses) one Abraham Zimmer (130 Ib.) whose automobile had collided with hers...
Because Americans, Englishmen, Germans, Dutchmen, Swedes, Lithuanians, Poles, Danes, Armenians, Serbians, Greeks, Estonians, Syrians, Letts, Icelanders, Norwegians and especially the Japanese think it is effeminate, many a modern Frenchman has abandoned the ancient & honorable Gallic custom of greeting friends with a resounding kiss on the cheek or jaw. So widespread has become the custom of shaking hands in France that last week the august L Académic de Médecine was asked for an opinion. Weightily the Academic considered, then over the voluble opposition of a youthful minority delivered these decisions: 1) the country man's hands...