Word: braggadocios
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...Enough, Mo., the town post office was discontinued. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch promptly editorialized deploring the loss, hoping post offices in Missouri would not be discontinued at Huzzah, Ink, Useful, Novelty, Peculiar, Wisdom, Ponder, Aid, Braggadocio...
...most of which seemed to go low and catch the militia in the legs. As the Red charge broke and failed on the 59th day of the siege, its commander, Lieutenant Colonel Luis Barcelo, was carried off the field with a bullet in his leg, still crying with Spanish braggadocio: "Everything is going fine!" Explained one of his friends, Spanish Muralist Luis Quintanilla, Ernest Hemingway's good friend (TIME, Dec. 3, 1934), who has now become a militia major: "We cannot take a fortress like the Alcázar in five minutes...
...Whipsaw", a happy modification of the G man type of picture, finds a greatly modulated Spencer Tracy, still cocky and assertive but minus the usual swagger and braggadocio. Myrna Loy, playing opposite him, also appears in a more appealing role than is her wont. In itself this picture would offer sufficient reason for attending the University this week...
...great Arizona desert. Leslie Howard, an effete poet who believes himself an anachronism, a petrified stump i the midst of a petrified forest, comes upon a little bar-b-q roadhouse, the scene of all the action. There he finds Bette Davis, who confesses with an air of braggadocio passing for humility that she is nothing but a desert rat. At the same time she cannot forget that she is half French because her father fought in the war; she reads Francois Villon because she like him although she cannot pronounce his name; and she paints pictures that Leslie considers...
...produce a pageant which is one of the most outstandingly beautiful creations that is produced in the West or in the entire U. S. The football game and the pageant have earned a place in the past ten years that is very enviable. We have no need then for braggadocio or to feel that it is necessary in any way to reflect on the Rose Bowl Game in Pasadena. . . . C. E. BAEN Chairman, Citizens' Committee Shrine East-West Football Game San Francisco, Calif...