Word: strut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Middle Ages, plays in England were sometimes performed from Pageant Waggons, which traveled around the ancient cities stopping at key spots -such as "ye Abbaye gates" and "ye high crosse before ye Mayor"-where the actors would strut and fret their hour upon the unsteady stages...
...artist's famous "Parrish blue," a highly glazed ultramarine over sleek gesso, still glows with an outer-space beauty. His overly graceful figures, like fashion models, strut and stretch, as clearly defined against grainy color backdrops as if they were modern hardedge images given fingers and toes. Only the brooding golden backlighting that makes theaters out of Parrish's scenar ios bespeaks a pre-neon sensibility...
...first prosecution witnesses, Police Reporter John Rutledge of the Dallas Morning News, testified that Ruby was "a loudmouthed extravert" who loved to strut wherever there was big action. Rutledge said that he saw Ruby at police headquarters at least three times on the night of Nov. 22, after Oswald had been arrested. Ruby was familiar with the place; he always liked to hang around with cops. Wielding pad and pencil, he had slipped past a police guard among surging newsmen. "He was explaining to members of the press from out of state who everybody was," said Rutledge. "Somebody would come...
...decolletage and then put them on display in countless films, are no longer in existence. We find that we have to do it on our own, and it "ain't easy." The T.N.T. is there, but the only explosions come from the frustrations of not being able to strut our stuff...
Carpetbaggers and copper barons rubbed elbows on verandas of the cavernous Grand Union and United States hotels; Eastern empire builders frittered away fortunes at chuck-a-luck and roulette. Diamond Jim Brady loved to strut down Broadway wearing 2,548 of his favorite gems, all at once. Lillian Russell ("that woman,"" Saratogians called her) pedaled around town on a gold-plated bike. E. Berry Wall, "the King of the Dudes," once changed clothes 40 times in one day to win a wager. And John ("Bet-a-Million") Gates was the talk of the town when...