Word: swagger.
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...sheik wearing a romantic turban, bedsheets and a polite but hungry leer. His name is Jamil (Ramon Novarro) and he is first seen functioning, for reasons of his own, as a guide to tourists in a Cairo hotel. When the proud but passionate fiancee (Myrna Loy) of a swagger young Englishman arrives to see the sights, it is not hard to guess how Jamil will show them to her. He kidnaps her in the desert, sings to her, takes her to his native village, beats her, lets her go back to Cairo to marry her Britisher, abducts her once more...
...monoplane shot up from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. one morning last week, tore through 2,500 mi. of stiff west wind, landed at Burbank, Calif. 12 hr. 22 min. later, more than two hours under the westbound record. The pilot was big-framed Roscoe Turner who wears a swagger uniform of his own design and used to keep a mascot lion. The plane was a Wedell-Williams speedster of the type which made the eastbound record (10 hr. 19 min.) last September...
...threatens to take Marlene's child away. She is hounded down the scale until she gives up the child, flops in & out of a 15¢ flophouse, suddenly reappears as a toasted but disillusioned Paris diseuse. At this point her bony, impassive face, deep, hoarse voice, crazy- reckless look and swagger are unpleasant but impressive. Hardly the madonna type, she comes home for the ultimate pleasure of holding her child for a moment, decides to stay as her child's music box tinkles out the case for commonplace happiness. Good shot: a fake cabaret gorilla rocking formidably from side to side...
...Swagger Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi, "King of Kings," itched with impatience last week to take delivery of the first effective Navy which Persia has ever had. Built complete in Italy for the dirt-cheap price of $2,000,000, Persia's new Navy consists of two small gunboats mounting four-inch, three-inch and anti-aircraft guns plus four smaller gunboats with three-inch guns. Last week, proudly flying Persia's leonine standard,* the Navy steamed out of Naples, bound for the Persian port of Mohammerah. Officers and crews of the six new ships are 100% Persian, smartly...
...least one respect. Late at night twice a week, every able-bodied Fermata girl leaps into special "fire clothes," goes shinnying down a pole for fire drill. (The small boys in Aiken Preparatory School do it too, though most of them fall off sleepily.) Rich Fermata girls do not swagger; all wear green tunics by day. Nor may their parents pamper them; only one meal a weekend is allowed outside of grounds; and no candy except just after lunch in the "candy shop" (an old closet). The school is divided into three houses, with colors grey, red and green. Fermata...