Word: swaggers
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...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...
...plot is very complicated, the action centering around Valerio, a young fellow who "longs to swagger." He gets himself into many awkward situations, is secretly married, has a fight with bailiffs, is arrested, and makes a fool of himself because he is unable to curb his inordinate vanity. At the instigation of the villian Rynaldo, Fortunio and Valerio attempt to defraud their fathers. The denouement is most amusing and unexpected...
...drawl, and convulsed the audience by his solo "Absent-Minded," R. N. Baldwin '05 sang "The Ghost" and "Guidarello Gidarelli" with ease and snap. His burlesque of the sate ghost was amusing, but not consistent, even for the purposes of comic opera. For Gascon Abandon and D'Artagnan-like swagger B. Joy '05 was all that the part of DeTrop required, and his songs "Soldiers of Fortune" and "Gascony" gave life even to the well-trained chorus. "Alfred Dante Petrarch," "Castles in Spain," and "Araby" were sung with good enunciation and graceful action by W. P. Sawyer...
...Twixt a swing and a swagger...