Word: gallant
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...intramural world received no major shocks yesterday. Dunster beat Kirkland, 36 to 26, and Leverett beat previously undefeated Eliot, 34 to 29, in A League basketball; the Squash League resumed play after its vacation layoff; and the gallant hockey players prepared for their first dawn practice of the pre-exam season today...
...Errol (Flynn). In this chapter, Errol is knee-deep in the intrigues of the Spanish court of Philip III and neck-deep in its lavish costumes. He is also once again a rascal with a 14-karat heart and a 1-karat mind. His intentions are high, true and gallant. His planning could at best be called faulty; it usually ends with Errol on the cold side of the dungeon walls and the villains holding the keys...
...group of distinguished Middle European refugees who share a shabby Manhattan brownstone. An archduchess turned dressmaker, a Habsburg turned salesman, a jurist peddling candy, a ballet dancer spewing venom, a famous playwright and actress (Oscar Homolka & Lili Darvas) on their uppers-they are bitter and sweet, grumbling and gallant, some taking misfortune in their stride, some wearing Budapest on their sleeve. In time most of them find their mate or their metier; while those whom the immigration authorities threaten with tragedy are saved by a phone call to Bernard Baruch...
...Harvard plays as they did against us last Saturday, they will defeat Yale or most any other good team we have seen. Yale's gallant try at Princeton last week will not help them this Saturday so Harvard might win handily unless they revert to one of their off days...
...Marlboro cigarette after another in his aluminum holder. Young John fell asleep. At midnight, his brother Tom was sent to bed. In the ballroom people started to trickle out. An elevator operator asked if it were true that they were stretching nets outside Dewey's windows. In a gallant effort, a Dewey worker shouted defiantly: "Are we downhearted?" Faintly, the crowd denied...