Word: strutting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smile with which "Dear Brutus" had once captured gay New York--and then--"But, my dear, you know, I was acting away for all I was worth when I looked around and the curtain had come down. One can not always "strut his hour" not on a Boston stage." The severest critic retreated...
...inspecting one last time. He had worked on this ship, the S-35, ever since her designs were first unfolded in the Sikorsky shops. Out over the ocean it would be his task, not only to help Clavier with the radio, but to watch every cam and strut aboard. That they would flawlessly function he was certain, but he did eye for a moment the special "dolly" (wheeled landing gear) which had been added to help the S-35 leave earth, and which the pilots, once aloft, planned to drop away as excess weight...
Then, suddenly, nine hours had passed like a distorted dream, and the wind-god raged moaning up the northeast coast toward Pensacola. No more would sport coats and plumed hats" stroll at Hialea Race track. It was gone. No more would dandies strut and women preen in Carl Fisher's fashionable Flamingo Hotel. It was wrecked. Five hundred bodies soaked in the streets, some wretchedly askew under logs, others stretched out peacefully by the Chamber of Commerce. Where had been one mammoth mansion sat a lone bathtub. And ghouls peered about, tampered with corpses...
Last week the New York Times gave a synopsis of itself. There was no strut about it, no Watch-Us-Grow or Whoop-Er-Up-For-Ochs. "Thirty Years of the Times" the editorial was called...
...Young Person in Pink" is not the most delightful device the Copley players have used to assist them in their two hour strut upon the stage of local stock. It is as obvious that they have too little here with which to work as it was that they had too much in "Outward Bound". The policy of producing plays hitherto unproduced in America is excellent when the plays are good. But as the Harvard Dramatic Club has proved, they are sometimes far from good. "The Young Person in Pink" is certainly in the latter class, lending itself at best...