Word: jowl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Silver-haired Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald led off the second procession-six carriages, each with a British Premier-Canada's Bennett riding cheek by jowl with South Africa's Hertzog...
...oblong skull, flesh pretty well messed up with scars, folds and wrinkles but amazingly firm in outline. Head like a big trunk, battered by travel and covered with labels, mostly indecipherable. Cosmopolitan, intact but hard-used. Color warm neutral with dingy hair, thick and ill-groomed at rear. Heavy jowl, thrust out and up like an iguana. Mouth curved judicially, lower lip protrudes. Eyes slanting with complicated puckers beneath, giving air of speculation rather than dissipation. Form lumbering, sits carelessly in comfort with wrinkled shoulders. Bright, direct look, the frank, clear gaze of craft. Clever as hell but so innocent...
...Senate ("Ever seen a section of a termite nest under glass?"), will scratch his head over this group picture of the House of Representatives: ". . . Everywhere the closeset eyes full of lawyer's chicanery, the pursed, selfrighteous mouth drawn down at the corners, the flabby self satisfied jowl...
...magazine in Great Britain was stopped when the onetime Gladys Deacon of Boston took offense at a cartoon in the November issue. The cartoon: a dowager in her garden gapes at two scrawny rosebushes, with their roots close together, their stems intertwined, and their single blossoms cheek by jowl. To her gardener the dowager remarks: "I guess we shouldn't have planted the Duchess of Marlborough and the Reverend H. Robertson-Page in the same...
...Cheek by jowl with the opposing roads was American Trucking Association, at whose business store-door service was squarely aimed. The Merchant Truckmen's Bureau of New York last week hotly wired President Roosevelt: "We are not opposed to store-door . . . service as a principle but ... we feel that no railroad should be permitted to claim unproved economies in justification of performing a service for nothing, or at an uneconomical charge, to the complete destruction of the local trucking industry. . . . Obviously this contravenes practically every alleged purpose of the National Industrial Recovery...