Word: strutful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tolerant and amiable toward all the world, but let a rival strut toward our especial throne of unique distinction and our neck-feathers rise, our wattles* redden...
...writes about all the familiar plagues and problems of the body-from catching cold to cancer; nor is there any trace of sickroom smirk nor of professional "strut in the way he does it. His style, in fact, is colored with a richness of literary allusion. For instance: "Do you remember Joe, the fat boy at whom Mr. Wardle was always shouting 'Joe! Damn that boy, he's asleep again'? Joe had an overpowering predilection for meat pies and mutton and roast beef. He is a humorous character, in fiction. In real life, he would be Tragedy...
...wise woman, with fine clothes to strut, makes for the most famous avenue within reach. A wise man, with fine theories to air, hies him to the most important conference or institute that will admit...
...wise woman with fine clothes to strut...
...letter from the grave helps Jazz-Bo spring some Georgia camp meeting stuff on the Republican National Committee, and Henry Lincoln Johnson, who eased himself in as National Committeeman in 1920, walks off again with the prize cake. 'Can he strut . . . that's what he never does nothing else...