Word: swaggerer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the War of 1812, some students got together to use Hollis' natural fortress for the base of the Washington Corps, a swagger company that paraded in blue coats, white vests, trousers and gaiters, and kept their arsenal in the attic. Town and gown relations were never good, though, and on one occasion irate Cambridge citizens fixed their bayonets and chased the Washingtonians to the gates of the Yard. There, the rout was haltered by white-haired Dr. Popin who, appearing at the gate, shouted; "Now, my lads, stand your ground. Don't let one of them set foot within...
...this might have been a much better movie than it is at 109. Yet the direction, by Noel Langley, has a real Dickensian rollick, and the acting is stylish, if not brilliant caricature. James Hayter is a dear old tub as Pickwick; Nigel Patrick, as Jingle, makes a properly swagger cheapJack; and Comedienne Joyce Grenfell, as Mrs. Leo Hunter, the aristocratic wreck who holds the "literahry fawncy-dress breakfast," positively improves on the book by revealing when she smiles a dental arch of the sort that no doubt inspired the design of London Bridge...
Classics, these pictures are, and great fun, too. Swagger and bullets, with men like Cagney and Robinson dispensing both, are unbeatable...
...background for the conflict, the town is a believable combination of small time cafe and bar, dinky shops and shaggy park. In the tavern cyclists gleefully guzzle beer while Brando strides about with an alley cat swagger, convincing the town and audience he harbors a grudge against the world in general. Center of his interest is Mary Murphy, playing a tousled, mixed-up waitress, who asks "Isn't it all crazy?" As her father, the local cop, Robert Keith sometimes seems to worry more about his part than his inability to cope with the disturbance. But he does well...
...Good Soldier Thimayya unflinchingly accepted responsibility for Nehru's decision. "Any agreement, General?" called out one U.N. newsman, as Thimayya sludged through Panmunjom's melting snow the day Nehru's stand was announced. "No, no agreement," he replied, "just unilateral action." "By whom?" Thimayya drummed his swagger stick against his chest: "By me." "Inalienable Right." The U.N. Command, gratified at least that its principle of voluntary non-repatriation would be upheld, replied that it would accept the P.W.s as quickly as Thimayya could turn them over. Then Commanding General John Hull told India, straightforwardly, that he would...