Word: gallant
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...Hollywood's Olivia de Havilland Juliet was a gallant try but a double miss. She is neither a good enough actress nor a magical enough Juliet. She never seems to feel the part-only the importance of it. She never seems in love with Romeo-only with Romeo and Juliet. She recites poetry where she should radiate it; and goes through the role as though following a score marked presto or lento, ff. or pp. It is a thoroughly modest, painstaking performance, but it just never seems to matter...
...road to Coolspring, in Virginia, is pleasant in early spring. Down the Blue Ridge slopes into the Shenandoah Valley, roadside plaques mark historic battles and gallant deeds of bygone days. At the foot of the mountains, the route to Coolspring becomes a mud road that could not have been very different in the days when Washington surveyed the area. Finally the road turns in at a gate marked "Monastery" and rolls across pastureland to an ancient fieldstone house on a hill...
...morning since the fine is the same for 24 hours. A graduated fine would put an end to this, as the Business School's Baker Library has done. Sealed fines would also eliminate the need for messengers, and would probably be easier on sleepy-eyed students who, after a gallant try, are still a few minutes too late...
Said Murphy: "In my opinion, one of the bravest of all Americans, and one of the most gallant, was Whittaker Chambers. Consider the agony and humiliation to which he submitted himself . . Chambers could have remained silent. In silence he could have protected the $30,000-a-year position he held ... his wife and two lovely children, who forever must bear the scars of that dreadful experience. And silence would have protected him from the devilishly clever smear campaign launched against him by Communists and their dupes in this country...
During Finland's gallant, hopeless "winter war" of 1939-40, Kallio traded his knife for a bayonet, went after the Russian invaders as a private. His father, Kyösti Kallio, was President of Finland...