| Show SWAGGER IS OUT OF STYLE even the and mighty nil air Is Conil derod bad form por for the moi moment neit at any rate swagger is not the f fashion says the london spectator the most obvious and disagreeable gree gre agreeable able cable form of self assertion which consists in making other people conscious of their inferiority by intensely unpleasant and supercilious belin behavior vior has of course been dead and done with as a social claim for half a generation the highborn high born and wealthy heroes of the old novelists who were too great to speak peak at the breakfast table and turned to fling a morsel to their dogs with an adof air of highbred high bred nonchalance exist no longer in diction lic tion and ana very rarely in life mr grandcourt Grand court was po perhaps r the last of them thein but swagger in in its minor and more amusing manifestations esta is also dying 0 ono one of the later forms of v much affected by men of the bachelor leisure sure class and especially by tal the much abused lotus eadels of club land was the nil ad mirari attitude it had quite a vogue to for r a time and in addition to con conveying convoying voyin an impre impression sion of superiority it saved a great deal of trouble older men who had seen life N were ore spared pared the efort all ort of hearing about it again aaen and young men who had not were ivere enabled to convey the impression that they had this form of swagger 0 astill is still in use rs a weapon against M tho the wre buta but as a fashionable cult it e exists ests no ion longer n or the leisure class as such does doe not assert itself by any explicit form forin of swa swagger swag gor D and would seem for tho the moment to get before it the ideal 0 of f the plain man in its dealings P with the world probably the strongest guarantee for the continued decline of swagger is the ta growth crowth of frankness formerly to refer or to money as a consideration of n in action was vas considered ill bred that form of swagger is certainly a thin thing of the past nothing is more coin common nion alir than n to hear the remark 1 I wish I 1 could afford it or 1 I cant afford it |
