Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trembling candles on a table. Between them Christ upon the Cross. Against the wall in the uniform of an Admiral a man of shadows with a long blue jaw sits, almost invisible, upon the Throne of Spain. Palace guards in costumes that have not changed since the 16th Century usher into the shadowy Throne Room a pack of gentlemen, most of them incongruous in 20th Century boiled shirts. Their leader, the Captain-General of Spain's Navy, a man with close-cropped hair and clipped mustache who does not look his 70 years, advances, and humbly bows...
...mind. That the South Boston attitude toward Harvard men is justified--that the "college young gentlemen" of Cambridge are deficient in masculinity--are conclusions from which the intellect recoils. But if Harvard men are really uninitiated to the mysteries of the left hook and right cross to the jaw, there are those who will claim that jelly must be an important constituent of their backbones; for even in this age of soft living occasions come up when a stiff punch in the nose is called...
...tariff wall around the Empire, one effect of which would have been that the Mother Country would have saved the Canadian situation by buying most of Canada's wheat. Devoutly may U. S. farmers give thanks that Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden set his little steel-trap jaw against this proposal, forced Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald to kill it. It was contrary to Mr. Snowden's faith in free trade, a faith which he holds with fierce, fanatical tenacity. It would have been a staggering blow to the already groggy U. S. Grain Stabilization Corp...
...made a star. Looking younger than his age (43) he earns about $5,000 per week, takes a swim every day, has a mild aptitude for humorous anecdotes which he acts out gravely as he goes along. Last spring he was implicated in a charge of breaking the jaw of one Rutger Bleecker Jr. It was rumored that when patrons of a roadhouse were praising Bancroft, Bleecker, small but unabashed, strode to his table, said: "Personally, I think you're lousy." The case was dismissed...
...Evelyn Brent in more than one likeness. She has the same trick of using lassitude as a means of conveying the impression of inner fire that the Great Garbo has adopted. In appearance, there is the Garbo hair and the almost wooden face together with the Brent-like sharp jaw, set mouth and pointed nose; but she is more beautiful, though a less skillful actress, than either...