Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with memories. In the President Hotel, John Lewis and his followers had plotted their great rebellion in 1935 against the A.F.L. and laid the foundation of a rival C.I.O. In the tarnished ballroom of the Chelsea Hotel, John had given the carpenters' Bill Hutcheson a punch on the jaw (1935). In the same room, in 1940, John resigned the presidency of C.I.O. and Phil Murray mournfully became his successor. Murray had no reason now to feel any happier about...
...Jaw Down, Sing Down. Helen's mother, something of a local concert singer herself, sent 13-year-old Helen to a friend of her own childhood, Madame Vetta Karst, the most exacting voice teacher in St. Louis. A birdlike little woman with an uncontrollable temper, Madame Karst screeched and nagged, threw pillows at her pupils. One day Helen sobbed, "I can never satisfy you!" "When you can satisfy me you won't need me any more," snapped Madame Karst. She taught Traubel to sing "down" so her tones would go over; to drop her jaw...
...oldest were the biggest. From the lowest level came massive teeth and jaw bones which must have belonged to monstrous manlike creatures eight to nine feet tall and weighing 600 to 700 pounds. They were four times as big as modern...
...obviously made for something frothy by Philip Barry, in this morbid, introspective play, she has committed an error sufficient to throw the entire play out of focus. And in her role as the aunt, Miss LeGallienne demonstrates she still believes that elenching her hands and jutting out her jaw are sufficient substitutes for genuine acting. As for Margaret Webster and Victor Jory, they are no more or no less wooden than they always have been...
...start of last week's title bout in half-filled Yankee Stadium (crowd: 39,827), Tony showed that he was going to slug it out Rocky's way. Midway in the first round he lashed a right uppercut and a left hook to the challenger's jaw. Rocky went down for a count of four. In the next round he gave Zale the pounding of his life. Standing flat-footed at close range, he swung right after right, often starting with his fist at knee level and finishing with it flush against the champion's jaw...