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...character of their ace triggerman, James Cagney. Sometimes the effort has resulted in Mr. Cagney's death (The Roaring Twenties). Sometimes he survives (Here Comes the Navy). In either case his reward has usually been the love of a pure, high minded girl. As Jerry Plunkett, a Brooklyn braggart, James Cagney is not only a disgrace to his semisavage comrades, but he turns coward under fire. Reclaimed by a well-placed shot and the ministrations of Father Duffy (Pat O'Brien), Jerry dies in battle. But this time valor is its only reward. There is not a girl...
Juno and the Paycock shows a family meeting a tragic fate through the weaknesses of a comic character. The Paycock's artful dodges and arrant hypocrisies, his braggart airs and grandly drunken delusions, are uproariously funny. But eventually his besotted dance is over and the piper must be paid. Then the light falls on Juno, who-her son murdered, her daughter betrayed, her home destroyed-goes forth, heart crumpled but head high, to begin life over...
...motion came up in Congress to make Peary a rear-admiral on retired status. The bill was finally passed, but not without some catcalls of "bogus hero," "braggart," "selfish egotist...
...Falstaff o'erstrides the play. Unknightliest of knights, a "tun of a man," a "huge bombard of sack"-guzzler, lecher, liar, braggart, coward, thief-he is like some centrifugal force overcoming gravitation. Far from being a villain, he is the most entertaining and lovable of knaves. Caught out in his outrageous boasts, his fantastic lies, shamming dead (to avoid being killed) on the battlefield, he never loses his unshatterable aplomb, never lags in invention or languishes in wit. At bottom Falstaff may well be a superb showman, not expecting to be believed, only counting on being relished; not expecting...
...utterly crude, super-blatant "chats" Radio Queipo has probably done ten times more harm to the Rightist cause than any Leftist propagandist. He is a typical, swashbuckling Spanish braggart of the old school, whereas the Rightist President is a serious, close-lipped cogitator of current Fascist theories of government. Francisco Franco started out with soldier simplicity to create simply a "Government of Order," last week obviously had not fully made up his mind what form of state Spain ought to have. If the potent British friends of Franco should have their way, and if he should win, Spain would...