Word: swaggering
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When a freshman has adopted a proper swagger, battered his hat and shredded his shirt collar, he is usually considered duly acclimated in a college. As a matter of fact acclimation goes far deeper than the skin and often requires the whole four years. The University of Maine has decided that acclimation is a growth which can be forced and accordingly has put into a practise a kind of not-house method. Those about to enter the University were called on a week parry to underlie a course of intensive preparation for college life. From Wednesday until the succeeding Tuesday...
Meanwhile Sunday is approaching, and all the roadside inns are sending out hurry calls for fowl. The King of the barnyard senses impending disaster from the look on the farmer's face. He loses his swagger and droops off in a corner. A turkey with an understanding heart remarks sympathetically, "It's great to be popular...
...Humour is the note of the play, but humor does not exclude the gallant swagger of romance, and when the cook sallies out to fight the dragon, and . . . the right note is struck by a master hand; . . . the conversion of the Dragon to vegetarianism is a stroke of genius. Dickens at his best never contrived a better ending than Lady Gregory, or one more in keeping with the tone of the right kind of fairy story...
...told in a simple narrative style the experiences of that small part of the A.E.F. which came into direct contact with the English and Colonial soldiery. They have given a really pleasing picture of the dogged Britisher, and the kilted Scotsman, and the "Aussie" with his devil-may-care swagger. And they have revealed with a wealth of anecdote the warm relationships which sprang up between these veterans of three years and the American doughboy full of nervous energy, and with all the serious enthusiasm of a schoolboy...
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...