Word: jawed
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...implied, was responsible for the abandonment of its first stand in opposition to continuing constitutional prohibition as it now exists and the consequent substitution of a directly contrary conclusion. Lippmann interprets this as proof that the administration is adhering to the policy of nullification, where the drys have their jaw and the wets have, their liquor...
...white-crowned, red-faced onetime U. S. Senator James A. ("Jim") Reed was defending a Mrs. Myrtle Bennett, on trial for the murder of her husband (TIME, March 9). In the courtroom Photographer George Cauthen of the Journal Post made a "shot." Senator Reed. 69, slapped the jaw of Photographer Cauthen, 30. Next day appeared on the frontpage of the Journal Post an editorial headed "Techy Jim": ". . . If the former Senator were younger, the Journal Post would feel like firing George Cauthen . . . for not breaking his camera over his assailant's head. As it is, we think Photographer Cauthen...
...trembling candles on a table. Between them Christ upon the Cross. Against the wall in the uniform of an Admiral a man of shadows with a long blue jaw sits, almost invisible, upon the Throne of Spain. Palace guards in costumes that have not changed since the 16th Century usher into the shadowy Throne Room a pack of gentlemen, most of them incongruous in 20th Century boiled shirts. Their leader, the Captain-General of Spain's Navy, a man with close-cropped hair and clipped mustache who does not look his 70 years, advances, and humbly bows...
...mind. That the South Boston attitude toward Harvard men is justified--that the "college young gentlemen" of Cambridge are deficient in masculinity--are conclusions from which the intellect recoils. But if Harvard men are really uninitiated to the mysteries of the left hook and right cross to the jaw, there are those who will claim that jelly must be an important constituent of their backbones; for even in this age of soft living occasions come up when a stiff punch in the nose is called...
...Evelyn Brent in more than one likeness. She has the same trick of using lassitude as a means of conveying the impression of inner fire that the Great Garbo has adopted. In appearance, there is the Garbo hair and the almost wooden face together with the Brent-like sharp jaw, set mouth and pointed nose; but she is more beautiful, though a less skillful actress, than either...