Word: struttingly
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...Rhodes and on Leros, Patmos, Kasos and the rest of the Dodecanese Islands there was hope. Since 1912 the patient sponge divers and herdsmen, the shipwrights and honey gatherers had watched their Italian masters strut in the bright Aegean sun. Since 1912 they had heard Vittorio Emanuele's ministers of state promise again & again to end the lawless stay and had seen those promises torn up. Greek in race, religion and language, they fought Italian efforts to Italianize them...
Probably responsible: some lax machinist who cut the part freehand and bored too deep, perhaps because his employer, a smalltime subcontractor, lacked a jig or automatic stop mechanism. An overrushed inspector tossed out some of the faulty parts; some he passed without tests. The fitting joined the right wing strut to the fuselage. Once it was welded into place, its weakness was hidden from final assembly inspections. But when the glider cut loose from the tow plane on its maiden flight, new stresses snapped the too-thin steel. The craft plummeted 1,500 feet...
...Roosevelt Jr., assistant commanding general of the First Division, in which he won many a decoration during World War I, went an Oak Leaf Cluster for his Silver Star. The New Yorker this month reported from Tunisia on General Roosevelt: "He is at his best ... in battle; his gamecock strut and his slightly corny humor take on a new and attractive quality when exhibited under fire." Last week his citation reported that, during a savage enemy counterattack, General Teddy Jr. had proceeded to an advance observation post under intense shelling, strafing and dive-bombing, had stayed there until the tide...
...aged but fortunately not mellowed, is again in the vein of the late, great Clayton, Jackson & Durante act, able to concentrate on his own mad, multileveled comedy which Hollywood usually heavily diluted with other men's ideas. He brings on his old partner, Eddie Jackson, partly to strut, mostly to stooge; fetches his fans with old favorites like Inka-Dinka-Doo; he insults waiters, lambastes bus boys, beats up the band, heaves lamps, flings around telephones, rips apart pianos, surges to a high-slaughter mark of comic violence...
When colorful Carmen, garbed in a florist's nightmare, is allowed to strut her Brazilian double-talk, "Springtime" sparkles. But when Romero and Payne play their gruesome twosome, the picture falters, in between, when the lovers art out to lunch or a reasonable facsimile, real entertainment fills the bill...