Word: blusterous
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...that new breed of managers: the nice guys. Like Brooklyn's Walter Alston and Boston's Pinky Higgins, he never felt the need for loudmouthed bluster. Slats was the man who was managing the St. Louis Browns in 1953, when they became the Baltimore Orioles, and he said out loud that he had a lousy ball club. He was fired for his honesty. "Defeatist," mumbled the Orioles' General Manager Arthur Ehlers, choosing a strange word to describe the skinny scrapper who had made himself "Mr. Shortstop" on the red-hot St. Louis Cardinals...
...Stop chiefly chronicles a raw, rambunctious young cowboy's courtship-which is virtually a kidnaping-of a soiled young Kansas City nightclub singer. Very slowly the clodhopper (Albert Salmi) discovers that an ounce of tenderness is worth a pound of bluster, while the audience simultaneously discovers that it is the bluster of a sexual tenderfoot. And the girl discovers that, though courted as though she were a punching bag, she is for once being thought of as though she were a lady...
...does not lovely Miss Somersdown give her hand to Mr. Bluster? Is it because Bluster, who is inclined to booze, resembles "a walking lump of drink-produced excrescences?" No, no, it is not that at all. It is because Bluster's courting technique is so blistering-"a cold methodical intriguing piece of secularity, without sympathy or sentiment, talent or tenderness." It cannot be compared to the courting methods of manly Nat, who cries from the bottom of his honest heart: "O speak unreservedly to me, Miss Somersdown; if your heart be free and unfettered ... if there be any means...
...easy on his old comrades-perhaps out of his own personal affection for associates of his guerrilla days, more likely because it fitted into the Marshal's desire to have the West think of him as a warmhearted chap beneath all those medals and all that bluster...
...play Yellow Jack by Sidney Howard. In the dramatized account of the U.S. Army's conquest of yellow fever in Cuba, Lorne Greene was convincing as Major Walter Reed. Dane Clark packed considerable power into the role of Dr. Lazear, and Jackie Cooper, stuffed with brogue, blarney and bluster, was effective as O'Hara. Wally Cox wittily handled his small part as the soldier who becomes an innocent guinea pig for the medicos. Unfortunately the play itself had a tendency to drag between high moments and a habit of making its points over and over again...