Word: swaggering
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Adolf Hitler turned over his German Navy last week to a new commander, Rear Admiral Rolf Carls. Simultaneously Nazi warships in Spanish waters began to swagger. The cruiser Konigsberg had been "commanding" Spanish Reds by radio to set free the seized Nazi steamer Palos (TIME, Jan. 4). When the Reds remained obdurate last week, the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec seized the Aragon, a Spanish steamer. These nautical "acts of war" (as Madrid called them) would have meant more had not Der Führer already landed on Spanish soil such important numbers of German troops, almost an army...
...required, a special "smugglers' freight car" for the convenience of Japanese and Koreans engaged in systematically evading the customs duties of North China. One can buy Japanese goods openly in China today at prices less than the Chinese duty which should have been collected on them. The smugglers swagger about with pistols in their belts, and the Imperial Japanese Government has demanded with success that these "dangerous weapons" be not carried by Chinese customs guards at the frontier posts most convenient for smuggling, such as Shanhaikwan on the Great Wall...
...producer). This play by the author of Journey's End presents British Actor Maurice Evans in a quiet, minutely drawn portrayal of Napoleon Bonaparte's last years on the rocky island of St. Helena. With his handful of faithful generals, the exiled emperor arrives with a grim swagger, never doubting that he will soon be leaving as he left Elba. At once he foregoes his precious daily ride on horseback when he learns that a British guard must accompany him. But hope springs up when he reads of riots in Paris...
...records in several London theatres. It was made by Fairbanks at the Gaumont plant, with money supplied by a London syndicate headed by Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, rich, conservative M. P. from St. Marylebone. A large canvas of early 19th Century London, it preserves with florid elegance the swagger of its period. In the early 1800's a man could be hanged for stealing thirteen pence. When Mr. Barty, a retired prizefighter turned innkeeper, is suspected of a theft far more serious, his son Barnabas (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) equips himself as a gentleman of quality, goes to look...
With the business centres of Tokyo, the cream of the swank embassy district and an increasing number of Japanese public buildings in their hands, the young Army mustards did not swagger, did not strut. Their informal eating and drinking place was soon the Sanno Hotel. When a white correspondent asked daringly if he might come in and look around, a mustard sergeant nodded and smiled, "Certainly. I regret that you cannot book a room, however...