Word: swashes
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Inevitably, the first bloom wore off. Many a disciple, alarmed by the New Deal's hunger for power, and by the growing debt, broke with Roosevelt: men like Raymond Moley, the Blue Eagle's swash buckling Hugh Johnson, Lew Douglas. Republicans spoke words like "regimentation," "bureaucracy"; many a thoughtful man repeated them...
Once again Hollywood has failed to depict one of the branches of our armed forces in a realistic light. From "Crash Dive" one might think that our submarine fleet operates on a Buck-Rogers-of-the 25th-century schedule. Fantastic is the word for it. Tryone Power is the swash buckling sub officer who leads his men through incredible danger to blast the enemy base into technicolored flames and gore. The plot is there, but in the usual and tiring mask of the eternal triangle...
Fortunately, "Torrid Zone" doesn't have to depend upon her. Jimmie Cagney is in there demonstrating that he is probably the best all around swash-buckler in the flickers--that in spite of his five foot four or so. And there is also an amazingly good script. The dialogue moves swiftly, with every now and then a remark which actually bears repeating the next time you wish to appear as a hot fox. Most of the cracks attest to the increasing senility of the Hays Office: some of them are downright shocking...
...Coakley has a pretty fair ball club in New York this year representing the Blue of Columbia University, but the pitching is woefully weak and will have to be spread over the schedule very sparingly. And even the most optimistic observer would not rate the Lions as a real swash-buckling crew of sluggers, needing only fair twirling to win games...
...that he flailed the heads of many European governments, thus contributing, of course, to the general harmony. Lastly, and most pertinent today is the aggressive Eastern policy of building a navy "second to none"; sending the fleet on threatening maneuvers in the Pacific; building forts; and generally using swash-buckling tactics of the approved Prussian model; all, of course, with intention of contributing to Japan's tranquillity...