Word: gallant
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...this unhappy juncture, the Russians sent Soviet Ambassador Sergei Vinogradov on a quiet trip back to Paris-officially to arrange for the visit of a Russian ballet company. Bidault suspected that his real mission was to assess the possibilities of a Cabinet revolt which would sweep stubborn, gallant little Georges Bidault and time-serving old Premier Lan-iel out of office...
...Bitter Outlook. In these conditions, against numerical odds of 4 to 1, the garrison has fought for 40 nights and days. Last week the French government cited every man for the Croix de guerre, and Sir Winston Churchill cabled: "I salute you." Now the gallant garrison was at bay. Was there a chance of relief? Was Red General Giap's army as worn out as the garrison? Or would the outcome be the simple probability-death or Red captivity in one of three bitter ways: a sudden, crushing onset in the dark, or death by the thousand cuts...
...whether he will ever conduct again-nobody knows. But his 68 years on the podium are already a legend. Wrote New York Times Critic Olin Downes: "Should this have been his permanent farewell... his name will remain supreme and his achievement immortally revered. There has never been a more gallant and intrepid champion of great music, or a spirit that flamed higher, or a nobler defender of the faith...
...Hollywood musketeers who met irregularly in the studio of West Coast Painter John Decker. Barrymore. Fields, Decker and Sadakichi each had one foot in the grave and one hand on the bottle. In the guise of Sadakichi's biographer. Fowler drops many a footnote to their bibulous, gay-gallant last stand in his sprightly Minutes of the Last Meeting...
This kind of fare is varied with pure farce. In "The Woman in the Case," a double-bass player and an aristocratic beauty get acquainted after both have gone swimming and have had their clothes stolen. Chekhov's Russian undressing achieves its full flavor after the gallant musician, clad only in a top hat, starts to take the beauty home in his double-bass case and loses her. Eventually, the encased beauty is released in the midst of a musical soiree. In "Boa Constrictor and Rabbit," an expert tells how to seduce a married woman with patience, distance, praise...