Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very rich man, perhaps the richest in the Colonies. He was also a very simple man, a foxhunting Virginia plantation squire, "slow and awkward at introspection, which he regarded as something slightly sordid." He was a man of colossal dignity. He had thin red hair, outsize hands, feet, nose, jaw, and his outsize body was "skin wound on bones, with broad shoulders and broader hips." His face was deeply pockmarked. When he could not sleep, he used to reassure himself by stroking the scars. He was "a sickly man, and he had the sickly man's intimate knowledge...
...supplement to the fine portrayal by word and picture of the man "with the tender eyes and jaw of iron" [Chiang Kaishek] in TIME, June 1, the following is quoted from one of the daily readings in our current quarterly...
...though these pilots burned a black belt of gutted hulks across the desert, they noticed that the main German force was getting nearer, swinging north and east, splitting, opening like a jaw. Things seemed to be getting worse. A huge tank battle was developing, and Rommel seemed to be forcing his way north to the coast. The German High Command announced that the desert fighting was finally taking "a favorable course" for the Axis...
...Hitler's favorites was his longtime chauffeur, the late Julius ("Pistol") Schreck, who sometimes concealed as many as seven guns about his person. In 1937 one of Hitler's adjutants told Schreck, who had a swollen jaw from an abscessed tooth, that, looking as he did, he ought not to drive the Führer. Schreck went to his garage, slashed at the abscess with a screwdriver, tried to extract the tooth with a pair of pliers, left for his drive with a raging fever, subsequently died of infection. Hitler wept openly at his death...
With these attributes. Cagney manages to suggest George M. Cohan without carbon-copying the classic trouper. He has the Cohan trick of nodding and winking to express approval, the outthrust jaw, stiff-legged stride, bantam dance routines, side-of-the-mouth singing, the air of likable conceit. For the rest, he remains plain Jimmy Cagney. It is a remarkable performance, possibly Cagney's best, and it makes Yankee Doodle a dandy...