Word: braggartly
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After three months of defense in the incredibly difficult mountains, the pride of Japan's Philippine Army had had enough. As braggart Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita's 20,000 remaining men, demoralized and disorganized, stumbled toward the coast, U.S. troops came in fast behind them through the rough-walled gorges of the Cagayan Valley...
...being both a richly eccentric character and a vividly expressive type-Chaplin is The Little Man, Durante The Wild Man, Ed Wynn The Perfect Fool. Hope has no eccentric character; but by giving his gags dramatic value he made himself a type-the dumb wise guy, the quaking braggart, the lavish tightwad. But this type somehow dissolves into a far broader and more significant one-thanks to his vibrant averageness, Hope is any healthy, cocky, capering American. He is the guy who livens up the summer hotel, makes things hum at the corset salesmen's convention, keeps a coachful...
...major, told friends at Los Angeles Municipal Airport: "I'm going to get in this thing with both feet. I'm going to Tokyo with a load of bombs." Doolittle, who once demonstrated a commercial plane with his two broken ankles in plaster casts, is no braggart. Now, having made good, he told Washington newsmen about his deed of derring-doolittle in formal Army lingo...
...Braggart. In Albuquerque, N. Mex., Daniel Jones wrote on his draft questionnaire: "I murdered a man." Arrested, he explained that he had lied because he wanted to be a sergeant, understood that the Army liked its men hardboiled...
...referred to a child guidance institute by a teacher for impudence, defiance, tantrums, gambling. The mother refused to mitigate her control in the slightest. Result: at 25, the boy was married to a model who supported him, was still lazy, bad-tempered, irresponsible, a braggart...