Word: galahading
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...nomination distorts his image in the public eye. In the case of Candidate Smith, his enemies see him more and more as a subtle knave of Rum and Romanism wearing the stripes of Tammany. His friends, in turn, are prone to exalt him as a Galahad of the masses, dight in spotless, and stripeless, armor. Actually, of course, he is simply a 54-year-old up-from-the-bottom man whose profession has been politics, whose acquired technique is state-government, whose ambition is what he calls "the highest office in the world." In acquiring his technique he found that...
...great tactician, master of defensive warfare, Galahad of the South, glided out his life as president of Washington College, where he taught duty and planted trees. At his death, it reverently changed its name to Washington...
...Lovers. Ronald Colman gave Vilma Banky a buss. That is the major action of this pretty picture which once was Leather Face, novel of the Spanish invasion of Flanders, by the Baroness Orczy. It tells of a bailiff's son, purer than Galahad, bolder than Robin Hood, an unruly crusader against the Spanish governor. For peace the blonde niece of the governor married this leatherface. Set in a gentle glow of sentiment are mild bearded Spaniards spearing Flemish guards, and Flemish guards wetting Flanders fields with dark Spanish blood. And then Ronald Colman gave Vilma Banky a buss...
...That John Erskine, professor (English Literature, Columbia University), author ( The Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad, Adam and Eve), pianist, has been elected president of the Juilliard School of Music, hitherto governed by committee...
...Geraldine, nee Bradshaw. Today Captain Cohn, a fat, unctuous personage with a great mane of blond hair, is to be seen, sleekly appareled and carrying a lady's parasol to shield his eyes, at every major race meeting in Europe. Frequently, very frequently, his horses win. His Sir Galahad distanced Epinard in a match race for private stakes...