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Word: swaggerers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meehan and Dore Schary, supplied with data from Father Flanagan, who acted as technical advisor, directed by Norman Taurog (Skippy, Tom Sawyer), Boys Town presents its subject with commendable simplicity. As Father Flanagan, Spencer Tracy supplies a grave paternalism well calculated to contrast with Master Rooney's fantastic swagger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 12, 1938 | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

With all his old swagger, The Haig teed up, smacked his ball far down the fairway. As the crowd's eyes returned to the tee, they popped. There, teeing up, was another Haig. It was Walter Hagen Jr., 20-year-old Notre Dame sophomore, as green-eyed, chinless, nonchalant as his famed father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Haig & Haig | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...lost. Three-fourths of Italy's bread requirements will have to be bought abroad with "old, the gold wrung from meagre exports and the tourist trade, the gold earmarked for coal, oil, steel, copper, nickel, tin -for a thousand commodities Italy lacks and must have to swagger and grab and fight like a great power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1938 | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Country House Opera | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

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