Word: strut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from below or pounce down on you from above, let it creep cautiously behind you and tap you on the back of the neck, let it go all around and over and under you and inside you and through you. Relax, and give this PLAY a chance to strut its stuff-relax, don't worry because it's not like something else-relax, stop wondering what it's all 'about'-like many strange and familiar things, Life included, this PLAY isn't 'about,' it simply is. Don't try to despise...
...that hurry to the theatre include the firm feeling that each Negro is a great actor. All you have to do is put a string of lines into his head, point out the stage and let him live the part. This theory, arising from the efficiency with which Negroes strut in musical shows, was crystallized when the Theatre Guild made its first furore of the season with Porgy, played by an uncanny troupe of colored folk. There were murmurs in the shrewd recesses of the Guild at the time that a good deal of patient teaching had gone into that...
Passenger, engines, crew of the actual ship will be stored in a 180-foot "single wing," which is three yards thick. Two motors will be held idle for emergencies. The fuselage is long and slim, chiefly a strut to hold the tail. But before the actual ship is built, the model must be well tested in a wind tunnel, i. e.-a a stout tunnel built for aviation model tests. So terrific is the suction of the propeller set at one end to furnish air currents, that a man standing in the tunnel would be swept into the whirling blades...
...Newfoundland. Several reputable citizens of Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, swore that they saw (others heard) a plane in the air at about the hour that the White Bird was due. But a thorough combing of land and sea in this district had not yet revealed even so much as a strut of the White Bird...
...able a repertory ensemble as may be found in this country-under Director Frederic McConnell. It has paid its own way from a small stagecraft shop in a small, abandoned church, where bankers and butchers, housewives and schoolteachers, came of an evening to sew costumes, paint scenery or strut the boards, to a resident repertory company in which there is still work for all comers but big roles only for the very, very proficient amateur, be she pretty co-ed from Western Reserve University or temperamental coal baroness. It is still a non-profit-making community theatre, but with increased...