Word: struts
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...producer of musical shows, whose hospitality on one occasion was so extravagant as to cause him to lie and go to jail for four months, last week made preparations for a new revue. His preparations included an inspection of would-be chorines, of whom he allegedly required that they strut naked in front of him, so that he could observe their defects...
Readers who have smiled to see Mencken jeer, these five prosperous years in the green Mercurial jacket, at go-getter, hundred-percenter, live-wire, inspirational, egotistic pep stuff, were shocked to see him strut himself in such an inept business-getting manner. Their conclusion was that he has joined his own "hated Philisterei...
...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...