Word: swaggering
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...emerald-green tanbark, a special and sumptuous Alice in Wonderland pageant. To Deems Taylor music (some of it from his well-known Through the Looking Glass suite) the Jabberwock, the Oysters, the Walrus, a bright-colored set of Chessmen, a decidedly Mad Hatter, a head-slicing Queen of Hearts swagger, slither and galumph...
...were mowed down. The battalion's lieutenant colonel was 30-year-old John Child Pearson of Blundellsland (near Liverpool), who sported the wide mustache that Sandhurst's young graduates affect. Somewhere he found a rose, and pinned it to his blouse. He stepped out, jauntily swinging his swagger stick, as casually as if he were taking a Sunday stroll in the country. He strode down the middle of the road, his men following, reached the bridge across the little stream and crossed it. There a stream of German steel caught him and he fell dead. His men went...
...fence politicos have gossiped that Lepke had something to "sing" to Governor Dewey that the New Deal did not want told. If so, Dewey now had his chance to prove it. Lepke was handcuffed, but he sported a neat black suit and a big black cigar. He had the swagger of a man who thought he "knew too much" to die. To his Federal jailer he cracked: "Keep a bed for me-I'll be back...
...when I saw the first parachutist coming down, followed by others who were resolved to break any resistance. My guards realized that and did not fire. . . . The liberation . . . will live in history-will in the future become legendary." The flat, weary voice climbed to the old balcony swagger as it recounted the rescue. Then it fell again...
...Swagger. In Manhattan, Pickpocket David Hauser appeared in court wearing what he called a loot suit-loose at the waist, tight at the cuffs, for the transportation of swag...