Word: gallant
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...days & nights later. Tone was out and Neal was in. Neal spent the next month and a half lolling around Barbara's patio doing nip-ups with bar bells while Barbara gazed adoringly. The gallant Neal later told friends: "Barbara asked me to marry her. It wasn't the other way round. She said she was in love with...
...gallant knight that rescued Bermuda was a second hurricane, "Fox," that followed a converging course to the eastward, farther out in the Atlantic. When the two Storms were 450 miles apart, they began to come under the "Fujihara Effect"-the tendency of two approaching hurricanes to waltz around each other (see diagram...
While We're Young (Tony Bennett; Columbia). Crooner Bennett handles a fine lilting waltz with gallant respect...
...sharp tinkle. In sudden silence, the Speaker demanded to know who had thrown it. Tall, tawny Tory Major Legge-Bourke rose, bitterly explained he had tossed it at the Foreign Secretary to suggest he should "put on another record." Icily the Speaker declared: "I now direct the honorable and gallant gentleman, because of that act, to leave this House." Palefaced, Legge-Bourke bowed and strode from the chamber. The fact was that neither Morrison nor Legge-Bourke nor any other honorable gentleman had advanced a policy...
Again Bogart plays a cynical, self-seeking neutral in an exotic city where the gallant and the shifty engage in life & death intrigues and a beautiful woman wants desperately to escape through a police blockade. Again Cynic Bogart rises in the last reel to a noble, sacrificial gesture, accommodated by a switch in character that should convince no one but the accountants who added up the script...