Word: strut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paul Raynal's The Tomb Under the Arc de Triomphe was being played for the first time. The hero is made to "strut" across the stage sneering at all who did not fight. This annoyed the audience. Then came the inevitable bedroom scene in which the hero's financèe gives herself to him, because he has been recalled to the front before the wedding can take place...
...Thomas Light, when a gust of wind wrapped the lady's skirt round the " joy stick " or control column. Frantic efforts to disentangle it failed, and in a wild swoop the seaplane struck the water of the lake with terrific impulse. A sliver from a wing strut pierced the pilot's skull, but the unconscious woman and the other passenger, suffering from a broken leg, were promptly rescued...
...would have been rejected by William A. Brady, and its direction seemed to be an impromptu affair, varying from night to night with the spirit of the entertainers. But it had real Negro jazz music, real dancing and a quality of speed and verve which was unique and refreshing. Strut Miss Lizzie and Liza, which followed, were progressively poorer. The naivete was gone, the speed became a deliberate mechanical effect instead of a natural exuberance, and the delightful " high yella " and " brown skin " flavor, degenerated into a cheap imitation of white musical comedy plus extravagant caricature of the native jazz...
...Dublin, in Easter Week, 1919, with overwhelming success by Lady Gregory's own company of Irish players. At the time the press described it "as a fantastic, genuinely funny play in three acts, a wonder play of spell-bound princesses, of kings who masquerade as cooks, of tailors who strut 'as kings, of bearded astrologers and flame-spouting dragons." Critics have pronounced it as her best' work since "The Wardhouse Ward," and said that it is pantomime as pantomime would be written were its librettists artists instead of dramatic tradesmen...