Word: swaggerer
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...mess, grace is said before each meal. He insists that his shoes be coated with a combination of vaseline and boot polish at night, left fallow until morning and then polished vehemently for maximum glitter. He fondly hopes that Marine officers will once more take to carrying swagger sticks, and in the field he is never without his own oversized version, a polished length of Haitian Coco-macaque wood. His hobbies are muscular: riding, spearfishing, fly-casting. A red-handled fly swatter reposes by his desk; few insects have profaned its orderly surface without becoming casualties of the U.S. Marine...
...Fancy Dress Party is set in "a certain country on the other side of the ocean," but in its brutal swagger and decadent morals it clearly recalls Mussolini's Italy. General Tereso Arango, its aging and bilious dictator, has always been fearless in battle and seldom troubled by scruples in handling political enemies. He has only one touch of frailty: let a lovely woman flutter her lashes and he caves in like a moonstruck schoolboy...
...belt, got his feet dug in, began waggling his bat. Just as the pitcher started his windup, he let down the bat, stepped out of the box and elaborately wiped an imaginary speck out of his eye. The pitcher waited, ball clutched in his throwing hand. With a swagger, the batter walked over to the rosin bag, picked it up, dusted his hands and wiped them on the seat of his pants. Then he stepped up to the plate again. Just as the pitcher got set, the batter called "time," once again stepped out of the box and knelt...
...Swagger Suit. Richard Sears got into other troubles. Because he neglected his supply department, he was often unable to fill orders for merchandise he had advertised. Once, he angrily dumped a bundle of unfilled orders into the stove. Another time he impulsively advertised a "swagger suit" which he had admired in a Chicago department-store ad. When 5,000 orders poured in, he frantically looked for someone to make it. The man who helped Sears fill the orders was Julius Rosenwald, a small clothing manufacturer, who soon became one of the company's big suppliers...
Gable's mission also calls for hard riding, fast shooting, smooth talking and some of the patented old swagger that endears him to fans. When reproached for ogling Ava instead of tending to business, he replies : "I just believe in living a balanced life-a little of this, a little of that...