Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...screwed-up mouth and a pancake felt hat pushed down over his forehead. Onetime sailor roustabout, he started to erect a filling station on his lawn in contemptuous regard of a city zoning law. He protested at the City Hall and, having "hung one on the the Mayor's jaw," was sentenced to 60 days in the local jail. From then on he began to act like the reincarnation of "Lord" Timothy. Also, turning write addressed the electorate...
Those entertaining brothers, the Royal Rumanians, were at it again last week. King Carol II, still somewhat tender on the jaw where Prince Nicholas had punched him, forced a decision through the Bucharest Supreme Court that the marriage of slack-chinned Prince Nicholas and his buxom inamorata, Mme Jana Lucia Deletej, was nonexistent. Not satisfied with that, the Bucharest District Court immediately annulled the marriage, leaving the grave judges in the embarrassing legal position of having invalidated something which never occurred. For good measure the Rumanian Supreme Army Council sentenced Prince Nicholas to two months imprisonment "for marrying a commoner...
...interest in Kansas City Southern, thereby forming the nucleus of what could be welded into a new Chicago-Gulf route (TIME. Oct. 26). Although the deal came as a surprise, nobody thought it inconsistent with Presi dent Joyce's nature. He is aggressive from head to foot, fist to jaw. Chicago-born ("back of the yards") 52 years ago, he began work when he left grammar school, pushing a wheelbarrow in a brickyard. He rose until he was president of the Mellon-controlled Standard Steel Car Co., now a part of Pullman. He plays golf only as a concession...
...usual dictatorial power (previously held by such men as King Alfonso and Primo de Rivera), President Azana circulated rumors among the Deputies that a plot had been discovered by his Government "to end the Spanish Republic tomorrow morning." On the Assembly platform, however, the President's jaw worked thus...
Next Coach Cannell gave a stirring speech which evoked an overwhelming ovation. He affirmed his faith in the desire of the student body to win from Yale as shown by their unanimous turnout. He said, "The team has suffered a stinging crack on the jaw but it is by no means folded up; they are now ready to hit back and in all my coaching experience I have never seen a team so determined...