Word: struts
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...reader suppose the prairie chicken dance to be a myth. It is a mating demonstration, performed in early Spring. The birds gather on an open grassy spot at early morning. The males strut back & forth, raising the tail and neck feathers, puffing the sides of the neck into little orange balloons. The beak is closed, but the air blown into the crop helps to produce a tooting noise...
After reading your issue of June 11 I went down to the pasture and read to the old ram your famed statement on multiple births. Since which he has done nothing but strut, because he is the father of twins by more than a fourth of the ewes...
...Paris, snatched the Crown from fat, phlegmatic Boy King Mihai's head. Never seeming to mind his demotion to Crown Prince, 12-year-old Mihai stood with his father last week to receive the Fourth Anniversary homage offered by Rumanian mayors. Cried Carol, who now likes to strut the Dictator, echo Mussolini: "My slogan is work! Only through good work for the welfare of your country can you demonstrate your loyalty to me. Work! Work...
...because it would be difficult to find any other grounds for considering Mae West a good influence on the U. S. cinema public. The narratives and conversation in her pictures, which she writes herself, are only less suggestive than her extraordinary gait-a combination of slink, strut and waggle. Uttered in her slurring, husky voice, Mae West's slogan-"Come up and see me some time" -sounds like the composite catchphrase of all improper stories. Because Actress West's manner of dealing with her material is light-hearted rather than lubricious, Vm No Angel, like She Done...
...speech perfect in grammar, literate in expression, temperate in tone, earnest in thought. Only his closest friends knew that his wife, a onetime Iowa school teacher, had spent years straining coarseness and vulgarity from his diction, prodding him to soak his mind in good literature. Though he does not strut his learning...