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Word: strutter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...over a Pearson column portraying MacArthur as a swaggering strutter. The suit was eventually settled out of court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Merry-Go-Round Moves | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

...first-class hot-jazz players (Muggsy Spanier, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, George Brunies*). But usually the musicians are purely a supporting cast to Lewis himself. He is a one-man synthesis of U.S. show business at its showiest. Under full steam, Ted Lewis embodies the Shakespearean ham, the minstrel strutter, the carnival drum major, the medicine barker, the vaudeville tearjerker, the circus buffoon, the ragtime sport-all among the most fondly regarded figures in U.S. life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Is Everybody Happy? | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

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