Word: swaggering
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...Hugh Casson (architect of the Festival of Britain), were conceived with two objects in mind-to be regal (for the solemn occasion), yet gay (for the youth of the new Queen). Tiny roses glowed with plastic radiance from lampposts along St. James's, huge plumed brass helmets gave swagger to others in old Piccadilly, and the famed statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus was encased in a huge, airy golden cage topped by a crown. There was even a mechanical nightingale in Berkeley Square (they tried a real one, but he would not sing). Everything gleamed with fresh color...
...with some scraps of food in it, and weeping as he watched his men fall. He turned to a U.S. correspondent beside him. "You'll forgive me for saying so, sir," he said, "but the British soldier is the finest fighting man there is." Then he tucked his swagger stick under his arm and strode off to lead the second wave up the ridge...
...says, "I'd feel great if someone did buy it, but there would be problems. We'd have to clean the show up. Kitty would have to be living with her parents on a sweet little ranch . . . And Matt, he'd have to wear buckskin and swagger around with his guns blazing. He'd even have to ride a pure white charger. Of course, if a sponsor did come along who would let us leave Gunsmoke as it is, then we'd really be pleased...
Miss Hayes and Mr. Munshin run the show when they're on. Both are masters of the aside, and both use it to good advantage throughout. Munshin tends to overdo his swagger and his wheeze sometimes, but is otherwise a thoroughly enjoyable character as the leader of a "mob." His two mobsters, played by Everett Chambers and Guy Raymond, are stock caricatures. (Raymond's part, incidentally, is that taken on Broadway by Fred Gwynne '51, who performed on the local scene a couple of years...
John Crosby's pugnacious pose on the jacket of "Out of the Blue" looks like a Walter Mitty conception of the cynical newspaperman. Though there's a swagger in Crosby's prose as well, his wit and sound judgment as a reviewer makes this collection of his best columns very entertaining...