Word: gallant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...story of the play deals with the adventures of Bess Bridges, a tavernmaid at the Castle Tavern, Plymouth; and Spencer, a gallant, with whom she has fallen in love. Carrol, another gallant, insults Bess, for which Spencer slays him in a duel. For this he is obliged to flee from Plymouth. At night Spencer comes to the tavern to say farewell to Bess. He bids her go to the Windmill Tavern which he owns at Foy, and departs for Fayal with his friend Captain Goodlack. Bess goes to Foy and acts as mistress of the tavern. Among the gallants whom...
...returned with reinforcements without resting, found the men who had been left, and brought all hands out in safety. The party covered 1708 miles over the ice-fields in 126 days. During the last three days, Lieutenant Shackleton was almost continuously on the march. There is no more gallant record of leadership and rescue than this, and the man who made it deserves an enthusiastic welcome in the Living Room of the Union this afternoon...