Word: gallant
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Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3 admittedly played a gallant role in the delaying action of the Philippine retreat. But MGM has succumbed to the usual temptation of ascribing too much glory to too small a company. What was originally an honest account of the P.T. boats' performance has now been magnified and somewhat distorted; too many guns and too much shooting have detracted from the realism which could have made this one of the few really good war pictures...
...song, of course, gallant St. Peter opens the gates...
...darker hours ahead, some delegates would say thanks to the gallant old Church of England. When the Methodists ruled that UNO's delegates could not drink intoxicating liquors in Central Hall, the Anglicans had opened up Church House not 200 yds. away, and permitted establishment of the best-stocked bar in London...
Buenos Aires' Calle Florida was no longer the avenue of the gay, the chic and the gallant. It had become the battle place of the republic...
Winston Churchill, Man of 1940, had somehow missed the flood. He had led his country to victory, then, for all his gallant stubbornness in the face of wartime disaster, suffered a humiliating political defeat...