Word: jut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been very vigorously exploited in the U. S.-as if the studio were a little ashamed of it. There is nothing to be ashamed of. It rattles pleasantly enough down its well-worn groove, lubricated by a flow of bright quips and excellent performances by Roland Culver as a jut-jawed naval commander, David Tree as his lovesick rival. But it is chiefly notable as a demonstration of what eye-rolling Ellen Drew and eyebrow-lifting Ray Milland can be made to do by a capable director-Anthony Asquith, who co-directed Pygmalion...
...treacherous reefs, and gingerly last week the chugging little steamer bearing Bert Fish went threading in through the narrow, twisty channel called "Jidda Gate." The blinding white and torrid town, where every window is latticed against the sun, is a maze of narrow streets into which tall stucco houses jut at crazy angles. All but one of the city gates are generally kept locked, and a Christian in Jidda is acutely conscious of the hostile glances of the purely Arab citizens, all of whom carry knives. Christian prospectors for Standard Oil were careful to grow beards and assume native dress...
...disgrace them. Typically class-conscious canvases at the A. C. A. show: The Shoemaker, who is mending other men's shoes while barefoot himself; Brenda in a Tantrum, which shows 1939's Glamor Girl No. 1 streaming indignantly through the air; Art Patrons (see cut), a jut-jawed couple gazing bleakly at a picture they dislike. Without a message were Hallowe'en, Artist Gropper's small son Lee, in a gaudy pirate's costume, grinning out from under a cocked hat of newspapers, and The Kibitzer, an absorbed youth eying a poker player...