Word: jawings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five weeks ago, an eight-year-old boy named Jan Dockin was playing on the sidewalk when he fell and struck one of his upper front teeth (a permanent one) on the pavement. The tooth was knocked loose at the roots and driven up into the boy's jaw, almost out of sight. Jan's parents rushed him to a Washington, D.C. dentist, Dr. Edward J. Slattery...
...capital. When the master of ceremonies introduced her ("the singing rage, Miss Patti Page"), Washington's big Capitol Theater rocked with wolf cries, whistles and cheers. In the wings, pretty, 23-year-old Patti, radiant in an orchid-colored strapless gown, sidetracked her gum back in her jaw, took a deep breath, switched on a neon smile and glided onstage...
...having people slink away whenever they saw him. Dr. Stanley smoothed out his gash-like wrinkles, trimmed down his ears, sent the rejuvenated Wolf back into the world personable enough to date Red Riding Hood. Since then, The Croaker has uncrossed scores of shifty eyes, remodeled many a jutting jaw and crooked nose...
When 33-year-old Paul A. Wagner took over as president of Rollins College (enrollment 630) in 1949, faculty men noted the cut of his jut jaw, decided he would make things spin on the experiment-minded campus at Winter Park, Fla. A recent executive of Chicago's camera-building Bell & Howell Co., Wagner (University of Chicago, '38) was full of ideas about using the new audio-visual teaching devices developed by the armed forces in World War II. Said he: "If our teachers intend to compete with movies, television and comic books, they will have...
...jaw dropped. He blew his nose. Then without saying a word he backed his car the length of the block and departed by way of another street...