Word: galahading
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...Holy Grail-which Sir Lancelot glimpsed for one transcendent instant, which the pure knight, Sir Galahad, and simple Sir Percival sought and found-may now be reposing in the strong room of Lloyd's Bank in Aberystwyth, Wales. It will soon be turned over to a vivacious blonde Englishwoman named Mrs. James Mirylees...
...Oxford don termed it) was an atmosphere of faith, eagerness and self-confidence that seems closer in time to the court of King Arthur than to the 20th century. Each member of the Lawrence family took for granted that his duty in life was that of a Galahad: honor, rather than fair ladies, was the desired prize. The great "T. E.," second-born of the five, and Britain's legendary World War I hero in the turbulent Middle East, merely brought to public notice an ideal which belonged to the whole family...
...Democratic primary last month by Robert F. Wagner, 43, son of the late Senator Robert F. (Wagner Act) Wagner, he simply re-oiled his rusty armor and re-entered the lists as an independent. Since Impy got to City Hall in the first place by dubbing himself Galahad and tilting against his old Tammany pals, it seemed that he might add at least a breath of humor to the big city's dreariest modern campaign. But last week Impy was waved off on a technicality without so much as pinking a dragon...
...enjoys driving her around in his Cadillac and ending the evenings in her apartment. For Laine, whose heart is a haunted house crowded with the memories of a broken marriage, two other love affairs and a stumbling career as a second-rate painter, Baby is a kind of dark Galahad of the Life Force. One day when she is babbling on about the beauty of his bravery, Baby sets her straight: "You want to know the reason I'm a fighter? . . . For money. For this car and these clothes. That...
Thunder in the East (Paramount). At one point in this oriental melodrama, one of the characters describes Alan Ladd as "Sir Galahad, Horatio at the bridge and Robin Hood, all wrapped up into one." The description is incomplete. Playing a rough & ready adventurer, Ladd lands in the Indian state of Gundahar with a planeload of guns and ammunition at a time when bandit forces are converging on the Maharajah's palace. The Maharajah's adviser (Charles Boyer), a Gandhi-like character, is an adamant believer in the virtues of nonresistance, an attitude which mystifies Ladd...