Word: gaillarde
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...battleships, stretching back six miles to the Pedro Miguel locks where the Florida (oldest and fastest of them all) would be chafing to get put. Then about one mile of light cruisers; then the submarines- almost a hundred of them-with their vanguard creeping midget-like through the yawning Gaillard Cut;* then another five miles of 106 pert destroyers impatient for the open sea; finally the submarine chasers, the mine sweepers, the airplane carriers, the colliers, the oilers, the cargo ships, and the last hospital ship struggling in the Gatun Locks. And up above 234 airplanes would frolic around...
This elegantly costumed gentleman who was the cynosure of all eyes on the Paris had affronted Miss Hampton. For it was indeed true that he had been photographed aboard ship with Gilda Gray (Mrs. Gaillard T. Boag) but no camera had included in one glimpse him with Hope Hampton. As the ship proceeded up the harbor, the well-dressed gentleman was photographed alone, with his soft green felt hat on his head, and with the little green hat removed, and with Myron T. Herrick, and with Emile Daeschner, and with Under Secretary of the Treasury Winston...
...novel laboratory has been created in the Canal Zone. When the Canal was built, Gatun Dam was erected across the valley of the Chagres River. The result was the creation of not only a deep-water channel from the Gatun locks to Gaillard Cut, but also a great lake, some 164 square miles in extent, which developed from the drowning of the lands on both sides of the main channel. This body of water is known as Gatun Lake...
Married. Gilda Gray, famed dancer (real name Mrs. Mary Gorecki, née Michalski, daughter of a Milwaukee alderman and former wife of a Cudahy, Wis., bartender), to Gaillard T. Boag, owner of a chain of Manhattan cabarets; in Chicago...
...been truthfully remarked that Republican France adores royalty-its own royalty excepted. King Edward VII was sympathique and un gaillard; the Princes of Wales, who may one day be Edward VIII, is also sympathique. Paris was flattered by his visit, which was taken everywhere to have been "a wise political move." It was hoped that the volume of chilled air between Downing Street in London and the Quai d'Orsay in Paris would be considerably warmed by the Prince's manifest friendship for France...