Word: juttingly
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...time past, whin I put me jut through wry livin' wan of the Tin Commandments between Revelly and Lights Out, blew the froth off a pewter, wiped me mustache wid the back av me hand, an' slept on ut all as quiet as a little child...
Crosby also introduced Hope to the delights of horse racing. On their first day at the track together the jut-jawed comic ran wild. Placing $2 here, $2 there, he ran up a sizable wad of folding money. He had worked up a vigorous enthusiasm for the ponies when one-of his entries finished out of the money. Thereupon he decided that horse gambling was too uncertain for pleasure...
...same forces that spewed up the Rocky Mountains, millions of years ago, turned edgewise a huge ledge of red sandstone, 15 miles from Denver. At right angles to the rock, on the rising hillside, up-jut two crags, Creation Rock and Ship Rock. In this enclosure a whisper sounds clearly, and anything from one fiddle to a full band sends lush tones rolling upward...
...Jut-jawed, bushy-browed, erudite Tycoon MacMillan was born near Toronto, studied forestry at Yale. In 1912 he went to British Columbia, got interested in timber's export possibilities, went into business for himself. Soon his ships were carrying so much of Canada's lumber exports that the sawmill owners began buying ships too. So MacMillan bought (from John D. Rockefeller Jr.) one billion feet of standing timber and a sawmill...
...Short, jut-jawed, gimlet-eyed, Professor Berdan always marches into class with a huge armful of books. Flinging them down, he scrawls an almost unintelligible message on the blackboard (e.g., "Vivify by range of appeal"), then proceeds, with illustrations and gestures, to make his meaning clear to the dullest students. To nip stilted, labored styles in the bud, he opens each year's course by shouting fiercely, "The less work you do in this course, the better." Students like to mimic his lecturing methods. Once, at a Yale Lit dinner, a student representing Professor Berdan came in with...