Word: gallant
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...Brown's gallant spirit snapped. The left fullback chased behind McIntosh towards his own goal, and watched McIntosh score the winning goal past Brown's unprotected, unhappy goalie. Time ran out shortly...
John Hallowell as the more gallant of the gentlemen-footmen is a very amusing fop indeed, and Robert Gamble hits a perfect note as his bumbling companion. David Landon as the annoyed father is also most believable and amusing...
...Dedicate went to the post for one more effort. Lugging rough-riding Willie Hartack for the first time, Dedicate lay back and saved ground all the way to the stretch in the $106,100 Woodward Stakes, then came on along the rail to drive home briskly and beat both Gallant Man and Bold Ruler-a pair of thoroughbreds that were theoretically fighting it out for the title, Horse of the Year. On the same afternoon, George Widener's Jester, two-year-old son of Tom Fool, won the $114,705 Futurity, a victory earmarking him the Horse of Next...
...business, when she was a fledgling literary agent for Brandt & Kirkpatrick (now Brandt & Brandt). Of his feelings at the time, he says laconically: "I suppose sex entered into it. After all, what's a woman for?" But in dedicating Son of Perdition, Cozzens was more gallant. The flyleaf is inscribed to her with these lines from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: "Outliving her beauty's outward, with a mind/ That doth renew swifter than blood decays." Cozzens recalls: "Mother almost died when I married a Jew, but later when she saw I was being decently cared...
...heroism on playing anyway. His performance certainly did not suffer, except for an occasionally gravelly voice. Morse can summon the panache, the spirit of bravura that the role requires. He becomes in turn all the things that make up Cyrano's character--braggadocio, courageous soldier, learned wit, testy quarreler, gallant lover, poetic lyricist, resigned indigent, noble altruist and pathetic but proud moribund. He gets a lot of variety out of his famous Nose Speech; and he correctly performs his Moon Travel Scene with a foreign accent. His Cyrano is first-rate acting...