The cause requires a youth to "stalk, and bustle, and attitudinize;" and he clearly thinks this is all the youth before him wants to do, whether conscious of the fact or not.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Slim and supine as the bamboo cane he invariably affected, he would wait for her, sometimes all of the six work-a-evenings of the week, until she came down out of the grim iron door of the shirt factory where she worked, his one hip flung out, bamboo cane bent almost double, and, in his further zeal to attitudinize, one finger screwing up furiously at a vacant upper lip.
"The Vertical City"
Fannie Hurst
She was very corseted, very mannered, and quick to attitudinize.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst