Word: swaggering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Roulette is a very difficult part for an American to have attempted, and Mr. Edgar Scott does it admirably. His French is charming and he carries off the swagger,--although that is far too strong a word -- of the imposter, with perfect self confidence...
...instinctively tends to belittle his enemy and to consider him a foe of decidedly inferior mettle. American soldiers, officers and men, arrive in France, fresh from their training camps, without any doubts that their march toward Berlin is to continue peacefully uninterrupted. What a rude awakening they await! They swagger and boast before the seasoned soldiers of our Allies, who look on with amused tolerance and good nature, willing to be dominated and instructed at their own game, if only the newcomers can act as they talk...