Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. Well may Harold Bell Wright scorn the critics. Average sale of his twelve novels has been 737,443. Tall, spare, with thinning hair (he is 58), high forehead, long nose, prominent jaw. Author Wright looks more like a preacher than a writer. He used to be a preacher (Christian Disciples) in California, Missouri and Kansas, but retired from pulpiteering proper in 1908, went to Arizona "as a matter of health insurance." There he still lives, in a Spanish-Mission house near Tucson. He has recently (February) returned from Hawaii, where he worked on Exit, fished for mahimahi from...
Battalino v. Fernandez. In his home town, Hartford, Conn., where he can draw bigger gates than anywhere else, Christopher ("Battling") Battalino, feather weight champion of the world, windmilled rapid, clumsy punches at the jaw, stomach and heart of slit-eyed Ignacio Fernandez, a Filipino who once knocked out Al Singer (see above). In the second round Battalino hit Fernandez in the ribs, doubled him up, then knocked him over with aggressing right. Like a fighter who has not trained and cannot, stand the slightest body punch, Fernandez went down five times more in that round, but stayed conscious till...
...cling to the arms, ribs and elbows of those whom he respects, amazed a crowd of 20,000 by poking several long lefts into the sallow face of Otto Von Porat, lanky Norwegian. Before the first round ended Stribling suddenly lashed a left hook against Von Porat's jaw. The Norwegian fell flat on his back, was counted...
...with short rights. In the next round Schmeling, clearly outboxed and looking much smaller than Sharkey (he was 9 Ib. lighter) landed less often. Sharkey hit him hard, punching from every angle. Repeatedly Schmeling set himself to throw his only effective punch, a short, straight right to the jaw. Repeatedly Sharkey threw him off balance, mixed him up, hurt him. In the third round Sharkey hit him hard four times on the jaw. Schmeling wobbled to the ropes, covered his face with his elbows, weathered the round. In the fourth he rushed at Sharkey as the latter led a hard...
...must wait for the restoration of normal conditions," said Captain Benn squaring his jaw. He also asked for an appropriation of $650,000 for the India office...