Word: gallant
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Reginald deKoven's romantic comic opera "Robin Hood," telling the age old legend of the gallant band of outlaws, has been successfully revived. The merry outlaws score the musical triumph of the evening as they rob the rich, give to the poor, and sing the merits of "Brown October...
...your sneering references to the "cardboard" statesmen, Senators McKellar and Reynolds, the idea of accepting certain islands in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in part payment of World War I and II debts has a great deal of merit. For once someone is not afraid to remind our gallant allies that there is still a large unpaid balance on some old obligations...
...this morning, believe it or not, was the French girl who dressed my wounds under fire during our raid two years ago. She didn't recognize me until she saw my hand." The men of the 2nd found that the Germans, who in 1942 could still afford gallant gestures, had honored the brave Canadian dead. They had been buried in a special cemetery, on high ground out side the port, and the caretaker said that the Germans had ordered a coffin for every one, which is more than a soldier expects...
...dangerous job began secretly in the first empty days of the war. It was a gallant thing then-dirty old "rust buckets" from West Coast bone yards taking aboard the tag end of a nation's aged and faulty munitions, bound for Pearl Harbor, Melbourne, the Philippines. But the munitions-loading grew. Slingloads of shells and high explosives were turning dozens of the new grey Liberty ships into floating bombs in scores of American harbors. Thousands of men & women spent their days & nights making and handling cordite...
Miss Jones begins the film with a nubile crush on her gallant "Uncle" Gotten. Before it is over, she is a full-fledged nurse's aide, whom war has robbed of Fiance Walker. Miss Temple, too young for boys, misses her father intensely and has an innocent crush on Monty Woolley. Mr. Woolley becomes so thoroughly domesticated in the U.S. Home that he even calls a truce with Soda, a huge, wallowing, old, white bulldog who is perhaps the surest-fire character in this sure-fire picture...