Suddenly I wasn't thinking of Daisy and Gatsby any more but of this clean, hard, limited person who dealt in universal skepticism and who leaned back jauntily just within the circle of my arm.
With the red cap and visor pulled over her eyes, no one would have dreamed that it was not Joe who stepped jauntily into the ball park just before the game was called.
In the militia, there were many middle-aged men and some older men but there was a fair sprinkling of men of military age who did not carry themselves quite so jauntily as their elders or their juniors.