Word: swagger
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...Shellabarger is a master of the histrionical romance. His Captain from Castile and Prince of Foxes bristled with swashbuckling Renaissance antics, and bustled down the old pay-dirt road to sales of more than 1,000,000 copies each. But before he became the darling of the cloak-and-swagger set, Author Shellabarger, a onetime Princeton professor, wrote sober-sided biographies. One of these. Lord Chesterfield and His World, published in Britain in 1935, is making a belated U.S. bow. Scholarly Author Shellabarger has taken a firm grip on a slippery subject: a man with the moral instincts...
Poor Johnson, he is engagingly blithe and brave, but just too big for his britches. He is not even a good clerk. Almost daily, his debts and love of swagger drive him to shaky deeds. He takes graft and kickbacks from payrolls, sells secret government information to the natives. When he is fired from his government job, he gets another in the town store. He is soon fired again, and when he sneaks back to dip into the till, his ex-boss traps him. In the scuffle, the storekeeper is killed and Johnson is sentenced to hang. Bamu deserts...
...have too many talents to play just one part per movie (other films in which he had multiple identities: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Wonder Man). In Riviera, he is a delight in all his roles. As the French ladykiller, he plays straight with just the right elegant swagger. As the American, he clowns and clogs through impersonations of Maurice Chevalier, Carmen Miranda, a kilted Scot, a puppet, a Spanish dancer and, of course, the fashionable Frenchman...
...division to be sent into battle in Korea. They were commanded by Major General Hobart R. Gay, a veteran armored force officer who served as chief of staff to General George S. Pattern's Third Army in World War II. At the front, Gay carried a military swagger stick given him by Patton. Earlier, the U.S. 25th Division, commanded by Major General William B. Kean, had landed at the southeastern port of Pusan, the main U.S. supply port for the Korean...
...After a shave by Sam ("The Barber") Silver, who comes out from the studio, Zanuck drives his green Cadillac ten miles to the lot, attacks production schedules, mail, memos and telegrams until 1 p.m. Then he takes a sawed-off polo mallet, which he uses as a sort of swagger stick, trots over to the executive dining room, and starts monopolizing the conversation before he has sat down...