Word: swaggered
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...best seller, Monsieur Beaucaire, a slender novelette which became a play and afterward a cinematographic vehicle for the late Rudolph Valentino, as a source for this romantic costume melodrama about Aaron Burr. Unfortunately, that mood is not recaptured, probably not recapturable, for the inspiration of Monsieur Beaucaire, of its swagger and dandyism, was youth, and in Colonel Satan there is no youth and no reality except a shadow of the personal bad luck of the courageous man who wrote it. Author of a dozen engaging novels and several good plays of the American scene, Booth Tarkington, now almost totally blind...
...Swagger Adolf Hitler's brown-shirted Fascists scored so heavily in the recent German elections (TIME, Sept. 22), that Europe watched uneasily last week as Austria voted...
...rose in his buttonhole; under one arm he carried a silver-headed cane and smoke curled from a big cigar that he held in his right hand. He had a heavy mustache, waxed at the ends, and a saucy look in his eye, and in his bearing an arrogant swagger. In his tie was a horseshoe in diamonds. He looked like a publican dressed up in his best to go to the Derby. 'I'll tell you,' said Rosie. 'He was always such a perfect gentle...
...drink, sing and swagger on the 24th anniversary of the First Battle of Bull Run through which they all had fought. 34 Civil War Veterans of Company B, First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, met at an inn at Stillwater. Minn, in 1885. There they organized the Last Man Club, pledged to assemble annually until only one member survived. Into a rosewood box they put a bottle of Burgundy with which the Last Man was to toast his dead comrades...
...Stabilization Corp. to go into the pit and trade on U. S. funds. William Kellogg was made its president. Who endorsed him the Farm Board declines to reveal but Chicagoans imagine he had political backing from Wisconsin. He conducted his trading through his brother John, now reinstated, with much swagger. Their operations in the pit caused much lifting of eyebrows among veteran traders. Their efforts to bull wheat to the peg price of $1.18 failed. When the price rose on dry weather reports, the Kelloggs sold Government wheat heavily, took a profit, helped to produce the next slump, arouse...