Word: swagger
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...last day, the Army had one of its few important losses. East of Wake Island, a Flying Fortress went down at sea. With it went one of the Army Air Force's best commanders, 54-year-old Major General Clarence L. Tinker. With his yellow gloves, swagger stick and Osage Indian blood (one-eighth), General Tinker was a famed Air Force character. He could well remember the time, not very long ago, when the sea was reserved for warships and a few naval planes, and Army bombers were encouraged to keep away from the Navy's pond...
Wehrmacht officers learned months ago that their swagger Mercedés-Benz staff cars were death traps in occupied Russian territory: guerrilla snipers gave special attention to these chariots of the mighty. In dangerous territory Nazi officers prudently changed to the cramped obscurity of flivver Volkswagen. But Gestapo officials persisted in riding in the style to which they were accustomed...
Immediately there arose a hue & cry that Colonel Blimps and toffs with swagger sticks were trying to run the people's army. Others, just as alarmed, shouted that the revolution had come. One Peer of the Realm cried out: "You know, all they plan to do is cut our throats one night...
...Dutch diplomat in "Foreign Correspondent," but there are many episodes with genuine genius behind them. Characterization is the forte of this film; no other Hitchcock picture has had such well-drawn dramatis personae. Of course, the hero and heroine are fairly one-dimensional; Robert Cummings is allowed to swagger a bit as Barry Keane, but Priscilla Lane, although skillfully directed to cover up her deficiencies, is bad. The emphasis of the picture rests on the fifth columnists; a trio of them, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, and especially Norman Lloyd in the title role, contribute splendid portrayals. There is an effective...
...plain, washed-khaki jacket. The jacket was open at the neck. It was bare of stars (he could have worn four). It matched his plain, khaki trousers. The only gold was on his garrison cap. But the trousers were rigorously pressed. A bamboo swagger stick swung in his right hand. The jacket, trousers, cap and stick, for that place and that day, were the perfect dress. They were in the MacArthur tradition. Among the dressier uniforms of the generals around him, they made him as conspicuous as had the Russian boots, the resplendent tunics, the stars and the medals which...