Word: jawing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fetid. People yawned and wagged their heads drowsily. Miss Friedman yawned. Nobody noticed anything wrong about her. At the end of ten minutes, she was still engaged in the same yawn, with her tongue hanging out a little farther. The lower part of her face and jaw were paralyzed. Several subway folk tried to help her, failed, then carried her off the train and called an ambulance. At the Jewish Hospital, a doctor massaged her face, brought her out of the yawn which had lasted 30 minutes...
...their pages. In 1925 the Cardinals were doing badly; early in June Manager "Sunday School" Branch Rickey was ousted, Hornsby was made manager. Except that his face and hands were cleaner, he still looked much the same as he did when he played in Hugo-wiry and compact, jutting jaw, small eyes, his upper lip too short to cover his strong, uneven front teeth. The New York Giants bid a quarter of a million for him. They were told curtly: "Hornsby is not for sale." In his first full year as manager (1926), he brought the Cardinals their first pennant...
...sleepless nights wondering whether her two children's lives are poisoned too. Her sister Albina Maggia Larice cannot walk at all. Her two children were born dead. Mrs. Edna Hussman hobbles about her household duties. Katherine Schaub developed pains in the skull. Her jaws crumbled; her features were curiously altered; then her mind sickened. For some time she was confined in a hospital for "nervous disorders." Her cousin Virginia Randolph is numbered among the first thirteen victims. Her death certificate read Vincent's Angina- Crippled Grace Fryer still sticks to her job. She has worked in a Newark...
...Service from the Cavalry where he won his spurs. Many a War and post-War flier was trained under his command at Scott, Carlstrom, Dorr and Kelly Fields. His brother officers still think he looks "like a Remington cavalryman." "Take a good look at that fighting jaw," say they...
Cities are well enough, but in the railroad gangs and outlaw camps there's more joree-jaw (raillery, chaff), and, better still, the singing. "Speerchials" still persist...