Word: jut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a U. S. schoolboy knows that Kipling looked like a big-browed, jut-jawed Groucho Marx; but few people anywhere would recognize a picture of his wife. Kipling married a Vermont girl, Caroline Balestier, but readers of Something of Myself are led to infer that she could hardly be considered American. (Kipling does not mention his brother-in-law, Wolcott Balestier, who collaborated with him on the Naulahka, and with whom he quarreled.) The U. S. where he spent four years after his marriage, he mentions often, always in the same tone. "Reporters came from papers in Boston which...
Twenty-five dollars is Mogul's standard fee for a private reading, and many people consult him before taking an important step, among them Governor Curley, who has jut taken his cruise to Bermuda on Mogul's advice. Several Harvard students have taken advantage of the free readings at Keith's to find out some right answers...
...honest but unexciting turn in Massachusetts politics, resigned the presidency of the Massachusetts Senate to become Secretary of the Common wealth's first Board of Education. That Mann should abandon a profitable law practice for a newly created job paying $1,500 a year surprised his acquaintances. Lanky, jut-jawed Lawyer Mann, however, was known to be a man of individual and tenacious opinions. He believed in phrenology. He despised smoking, drinking, ballet dancing. He was proud of being a self-made man, who had been schooled intermittently in his youth, braiding straw in his father's farmhouse...
...defeat in still another run-off went Democratic Representative Percy Lee ("Don't Call Me Percy") Gassaway, whose ten-gallon hat, cowboy boots, wing collar, shoestring tie and advocacy of birth control made him a minor notable in the 74th Congress. Victor on a cowhide radical program was jut-jawed, 27-year-old Lyle H. Boren who stepped out of a Government job for the campaign. Gassaway's chief attack on him was his failure to marry, produce 14 children, as Gassaway had done. Replied Nominee Boren: "Old Noah or someone in the Bible was 500 years...
...that Jews were ignored at the Cleveland convention, that no Jew had sat on the dais with the new chairman at a post-convention banquet for him in Manhattan. Last week newshawks asked John Hamilton about the rumors. Obviously primed with his points, if not with his metaphors, the jut-jawed Republican Chairman barked: "There is not an iota of truth in such a thing, and it is a deliberate attempt by those other people to throw a dust cloud when they know their ship is sinking. We have a red herring in every campaign, and apparently this...