Word: jawing
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Keys for Cages. Mr. Bevin is succinctly said by his admirers to have a "good jaw." He began by jawing the Congress into adoption of his resolution that the Government should begin to pay old age pensions to all workers at 60. Then, with the snowball of approval rolling his way he launched fiery onslaught against what Europe calls "rationalization" and America "Fordization...
...idea was to begin a new campaign by beating Berg, a junior welterweight, then Al Singer, lightweight champion, and so work down to his own featherweight class. Looking thoughtful and serious, he jabbed Berg with sewing-machine lefts and crossed him with hard right-hand punches to the jaw. The cockney came in milling and tied him up, battered at his ribs in the clinches without getting past his countering elbows. Whenever Chocolate was free to box he scored points but Berg kept on top of him aggressively. Liking Chocolate for his buoyancy, his nerve, and the crafty speed...
...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...