Word: bravura
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...first great test of the men-and the bravura sequence of the picture-confronts them unexpectedly, en route to North Africa, when their ship is torpedoed. They pass the test because they have become, almost unknowingly, trained and efficient soldiers. It is much later, after a stretch of pure boredom, that they meet their first hand-to-hand test as warriors. As they advance toward it, bayonets fixed, the picture ends...
...Seventeen and I've Never Been and, in asthmatic duet with Mr. Brook, Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes. She delivers the perfect Lillie line, "You will find the dinghy by the jetty." But the essence of On Approval's charm is not in such familiar bravura; it is in the muted perfection of Miss Lillie's general performance, and in the excellence of the supporting players. It is in the way Clive Brook handles his stick and gloves, or invites himself downstairs for a drink with his former butler, or ribs "daring" pictures...
When Kahn replied that he did not think the idea timely, Harris flung out: "I asked for your money, not your advice." Despite his bellows and bravura, no body has ever denied Harris' charm when he wants to display it, or his unfailing vigor in the theater. Remarked one friend : "Jed will quarrel with you, he will embarrass you, he will break your heart, he will drive you crazy - but he will al ways be good for the show...
Some thought the performance bravura, others brave. But whether or not the President had answered the questions about his health*-questions with which voters of both parties are naturally greatly concerned-would not be known until Election...
Today, "young" Jan Masaryk is 57 and the most popular diplomat in London-the most welcome of all those Continental statesmen who habitually visit the U.S. Full of bounce and zest and a bravura that was once described as "something out of the pages of Dumas," the tall (6 ft. 2 in.) extrovert has a selling power that could make Eskimos buy iceboxes. He looks like, and has all the making of, a successful American business man, an elegant European bon vivant, a world-famous orchestra leader, a magnetic political boss. But from his thin lips sometimes come words...