Word: bravado
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...close, he retired to the Cookson Hills where he reputedly keeps a string of mountaineers in funds in exchange for their close-mouthed hospitality. A murderously cool shot, his trigger finger has already accounted for at least six deaths. Fond of flashy clothes, he likes to show his bravado by returning to his home town, Sallisaw, Okla., for brief visits. He is wanted by the Federal Government for two murders, two mail robberies. Less than 24 hours after Federal agents announced that Floyd was wanted as one of the Union Station killers, he was flushed out of an Iowa farm...
Blackie Gallagher was the most engaging screen gangster to come out of Hollywood since Little Caesar. Gay, ruthless. debonair, he rose from guttersnipe to big-shot with swashbuckling bravado, killing in cold blood all who opposed him. Finally the Law caught Blackie Gallagher, marched him to the electric chair...
...British Press, led by the London Times, went even further in accusation. Said the Times: "The threat of a general massacre of political opponents [by the Nazis] might have been dismissed two months ago as crude bravado but cannot be rated so lightly now. . . . Although the rumors may prove unfounded, they continue to reach England from several good sources." London's Daily Herald, one-time organ of James Ramsay MacDonald, now of the British Labor Party, declared: "A quarter-million Nazi storm troops, including desperate characters over whom even Chancellor Hitler cannot exercise control, will, it is stated, invade...
Strike Me Pink (words, music & production by Lew Brown & Ray Henderson) had its premiere in the null manner. Opening night tickets were printed in pink & gilt. There were pink roses for the ladies, pink carnations for the gentlemen. Even in such an atmosphere of anti-Depression bravado, one might have expected a bank moratorium audience to be unresponsive. Such was not the case. With Wartime cheeriness, first-nighters rewarded an optimistic but routine number called "It's Great to Be Alive," sung by dark little Gracie Barrie, with a storm of applause. When the tall and attractive chorus chanted...
...from displeased by such Soviet bravado, prominent British Tories welcomed it as sufficient provocation to break off Anglo-Soviet trade relations, stop alleged Soviet "dumping" in British markets...