Word: gaillarde
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...characters were at a moment in their careers when they were compelled to make irrevocable decisions. While Mrs. Wharton left notes suggesting how she intended to end the novel, she gave no hint of how she intended to solve its moral and esthetic problems. Last week her literary executor, Gaillard Lapsley,* offered The Buccaneers as a novel complete as far as it went, but with its conclusion a puzzle which readers might work out themselves. Because it contains two first-rate characterizations, some sharp social satire and a tantalizing dilemma at the end, The Buccaneers makes far better reading than...
...best parts of The Buccaneers are its glimpses of raucous and pretentious Gilded Age society in New York, where social maneuvers interweave with Wall Street plots and humble wives of new millionaires squat uneasily on upholstered fortunes. Although Editor Gaillard Lapsley compares scenes in The Buccaneers to passages in Proust, the comparison only calls attention to Mrs. Wharton's limitations: brilliant chapters like those laid in Saratoga fade out quickly, to be followed by weary passages scarcely superior to the average fiction in women's magazines...
Authors of The Flat Foot Floogie with the Floy Floy, Slim Gaillard and Slam Stewart, do not know themselves what the words mean. Said Slim: "We were sort of talking a new language." The dance they had vaguely in mind was to be done flatfoot. "When we put the floy floy on it, that was extra business. You got the whole dance right there; you're swinging. See what I mean...
...formula for spy stories is always the same, regardless of the war used. Gail Loveless (Marion Davies) meets Jack Gaillard (Gary Cooper) first in Martinsburg, where she is painted as an octoroon. She sees him next at Richmond where she is functioning as a Southern belle. By this time the audience is well aware that Loveless and Gaillard are information agents, he for the South, she for the North. The scene in which Marion Davies says "I love you so" is promptly followed by the one in which a Confederate soldier informs Gary Cooper that she is a spy. Then...
Restarick Withington '35 defeated Mark Mazel, 3-0; Lawrence Paul 2GB, by default; Francis Schumann '35, by default; Gordon Robertson '36 defeated Irvong Wallace, 3-0; John P. Gaillard 3L defeated Jerome Shapiro...