Word: swaggered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Captain Swagger. Starring Rod La Rocque, this unlikely story of War heroes after the War, one a German Baron, the other an amateur bandit fast becoming professional, is happily without dialog. There is some good dancing by the doublers for Swagger and his girl who are supposed to be Russian entertainers in a high-grade night club...
Despatches from Paris told that the stand taken by the Papacy has already shorn Editors Daudet and Maurras of perhaps half their Roman Catholic supporters. For example, the smart, swagger group of young Royalist bravos who used to be known as Les Camelots du Roi, "The King's Newsboys," because they sold copies of L'Action Française have deserted in numbers approaching a stampede...
...work, Author Morand allows readers to see him, a suave and casual Prospero, waving a wand which resembles a swagger stick. He wishes readers to understand how little effort it has caused him to be referred to as the polished Parisian diplomat, as the brilliant, the famed, the witty author of Ouvert la Nuit, Fermé la Nuit and many a shorter turn in the smartest smart-charts...
...thus savagely, the attitude of the Court may be imagined. Little Wilhelm, brilliant, neurotic, effeminate, afraid, was driven to wrench up the very roots of his personality. He would show them! He did. After a purgatory of physical suffering he learned to use his withered arm, to ride, to swagger and to bluster-though he drank little, and did not, says Herr Ludwig, acquire the manly art of "talking bawdy." At last, even grizzled old Wilhelm I, his grandfather, said of his horsemanship at maneuvers, "Well done! I could never have believed you could...
...Another swagger, and the Post offered four gallons...