Word: strutted
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...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...
...meeting of the Aero Society the general plan of the work for the coming year was outlined and definite steps were taken in the assignment of topics and announcements of competitions. The first competition held by the Society is to be closed on November 1, when the designs for strut fittings for a military tractor biplane are due. At the next meeting of the Society four members will speak on the different types of controls for biplanes. Three of the speakers are licensed pilots and are to speak of their own experiences with the corpse of controls which they will...
...given promise of a brilliant future, but if its idea of showing appreciation for athletic victories is to repudiate its debts, it need not be surprised to fine a lack of vigor and energy in the work of both nine and crew. Men who can afford to strut about the college yard smoking Turkish cigarettes and expensive tobacco in handsome meerschaums, bragging of their eleven (the "finest), ought certainly to have the self-respect to meet the expenses of a victorious team, or enjoy the reputation of unparalleled selfishness and lethargy...
...this way your first winter will be spent, and when it comes time for election into societies in the spring, one of two things will happen, - you will either be in the "first ten," or you will not. If you are a member of the "first ten" you can strut about as much as you please, leave off calling your athletic friends "old fellow," and bow graciously to Seniors; if not, another path is open to you. Those of your friends who are in must be greater friends than ever. Add "old boy" where you formerly said "old fellow...
...Senior strut and swell...