Word: swaggering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete outfit, from black velvet dress to handbag, swagger stick and costume jewelry, made of synthetic fabrics or plastics...
...Toothy, swagger-minded Grover Whalen, president of New York's World's Fair, in Europe on a busman's holiday, attended the Swiss National Exposition...
...Swagger little President Manuel Quezon last week lodged formal protest against such a portrait of Philippine character through his Resident Commissioner Joaquin ("Mike") Elizalde, who emplaned from Washington for California to talk to Mr. Goldwyn. Upshot: for Producer Goldwyn, another well-publicized tribulation; for Commissioner Elizalde, an invitation to attend, with Goldwyn Executive James Roosevelt, the preview of The Real Glory, in which Filipinos will continue to cower...
...figure of Adolf Hitler strode over a cringing Europe with all the swagger of a conqueror. Not the mere fact that the Führer brought 10,500,000 more people (7,000,000 Austrians, 3,500,000 Sudetens) under his absolute rule made him the Man of 1938. Japan during the same time added tens of millions of Chinese to her empire. More significant was the fact Hitler became in 1938 the greatest threatening force that the democratic, freedom-loving world faces today...
Marooned amidst the wreckage of Cape Cod homes for nearly a week while serving with the National Guards, the youths whose military swagger lacked the finesse of their older associates admitted a longing for the leisure of Cambridge life...