Word: swagger
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...behind Glyndebourne is Capt. John Christie, wealthy ex-science teacher at England's swagger Eton College, and present owner of Glyndebourne Manor. A lifetime lover and patron of music, a constant attender at the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festivals, Captain Christie long had an ambition to establish an operatic festival of similar quality in England. In 1933 at Copenhagen he unfolded his scheme to round-faced Conductor Fritz Busch, German political exile and famed former conductor of the Dresden Opera. Enthusiastic Maestro Busch called in the help of his expatriated countryman, Stage Director Carl Ebert. With Austrian Impresario Rudolf Bing...
...Brimstone (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), an old-fashioned Western, elaborately cast, expensively produced, neither better nor worse than scores like it, has the speed, dusty swagger, standardized hokum of the standardized Western. Its dullness is often redeemed by Wallace Beery's loutish homicidal cuteness as the bad man with a heart of gold...
...True Confession's three leading players, John Barrymore as the half-maudlin, crazily cunning pariah has far the smallest part but handles it with a Hogarthian swagger which threatens to eclipse his colleagues. Accused of stealing the picture, he remarked gallantly, "Nobody ever steals a picture from Carole Lombard...
Only drawback to Bad Guy is that the sensational shots of man-made lightning snaking through the air in 40-ft. arcs are likely to inspire more respectful attention in a lay audience than Bruce Cabot's cheerful swagger...
...charm. There is a sort of civilized restraint throughout, even in the sense of inevitability that drives the picture on. Mizzi doesn't need to rouge garishly and wiggle her hips to show that she's free and easy. The men in uniform don't feel called upon to swagger and shout orders and twist their mustaches in order to demonstrate their army spirit and discipline. There's no order of onions in the tears, and no emotional laryngitis. In short, its just good plain honest acting...