Word: gallant
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...struggle against the Germans. Even the Communists had curbed personal attacks on men like Georges Bidault, whose Resistance leadership they had accepted. But it was obvious that sooner or later the Communists would do away with such sentimental nonsense. By last week, the last remnants of France's gallant unity crashed in the treason trial of René Hardy...
...itself a confusion, a failure to discriminate in feeling; and Tarkington even at his best failed in that way. Nothing in Alice Adams is more pathetic than the author's own willingness to let the Adams family be salvaged by a golden-hearted businessman and Alice herself by gallant enrollment in a business college. One such piece of symbolism might pass, but not both...
...airport, in the harsh light of the morning after, the sable lining in Monty's new coat seemed to be merely "brown fur." Said the gallant Monty: "Anyhow, it's a beautiful coat." Wearing it and his caracul cap, taking his white coat with him, he boarded the plane. When he landed in England, he had on his beret...
...TIME was wrong-incredibly, inexcusably wrong, since the true facts of Starkenborgh's war record had been reported in a previous issue [Oct. 29, 1945]-TIME'S sincere apologies to gallant Ambassador Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer...
...acknowledged admiring whistles, and claimed that their drunken friends had forgotten to bring their costumes. In a gesture of respectability the police took their names, but did not bother to turn them in. At the end of the parade, the float was pulled over and the girls grabbed by gallant or lecherous onlookers...