Word: jawing
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...beginning of the fatal last chukker, the orange and black shirted Princetonians were leading 7 1-2 to 6. They were then deprived of the services of R. S. Waterhouse, the star Nassau number two man, who suffered a fractured jaw in the closing minutes of the third stanza when he was struck by a Harvard mallet in a close scrimmage...
...savage, won the first round by ignoring Loughran's left jab and punishing his body. His first punch in the second round, on Loughran's mouth, really ended the fight. Loughran got up after a count of eight, went down again immediately from a right to the jaw. When he fell for the third time, dazed and helpless, Referee Gunboat Smith stopped the fight...
Prompted, doubtless, by recent activities of Clark Gable and James Cagney, Fairbanks speaks rudely to Joan Blondell. At one point he fetches her a light clip on the jaw. Though Authors Kubec Glasmon and John Bright wrote dialog in their own idiom, the original authors, Gene Fowler and Joe Laurie Jr., were obviously thinking of Grand Hotel and possibly Transatlantic. But the cinema?artistically at least?is a good borrower and the fact is that stories in the pattern of Grand Hotel, Transatlantic, Union Depot are magnificently suited to cinematic 'expression. Fast, brief, unlikely and compact, this one is almost...
...bucks, among them Horace Ida and Joe Kahahawai. The court proceedings were a publicity circus for the half-caste natives. Mrs. Massie testified to the events of her horrible night, identified Kahahawai as the native who had beaten her repeatedly on the ride out of town, had broken her jaw in two places while raping her. U. S. newsmen had decently protected her name during the trial and after until last week's murder made its use imperative. The jury, topheavy with Hawaiians, disagreed and was discharged. The five defendants were set free under bail pending a second trial...
...face is first seen sticking out from behind a steering wheel, spouting Yiddish at a customer. Leader of an insurgent group of cabdrivers who resent the methods of a racketeering corporation, Cagney has ample chance to perform his specialty?a short right-hand punch to the side of the jaw. He threatens his girl (Loretta Young) almost every time he sees her, takes a poke at the clerk from whom they get a marriage license. Right after the marriage, Cagney sets out to avenge a murder committed by the head racketeer of the taxi corporation. Despite his wife's protests...