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...greatly Russia needs Maiya Sloboda, and millions like her, Russians could plainly see last week. The gallant promises from Comrade Stalin himself were being drowned out in the clatter of German armies moving forward, over a carpet of dead Russians, to the oil of the Caucasus (see p. 21). From the east came the rumble of Jap armies massing to stab Siberia (see p. 21). Stormoviks of the Red Air Force smashed at tanks worming their way through the steppes of the Don. They splashed the skies with smoke, fighting through Messerschmitts toward airfields skulking just behind advance lines...
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...over The Profile; even what Barry more called "the left, or money-making side of my face" stopped throwing women into dithers. His last marriage, with Schoolgirl Elaine Barrie (nee Jacobs), was a howling coast-to-coast farce. After their divorce, Barrymore sighingly described his wives as "gallant women...
...There should be a ban on flowery, overenthusiastic lyrical sports writing for the duration. . . . Remembering the exploits of military heroes, it does not seem appropriate to overdo the use of such words as 'courageous,' 'gallant,' 'fighting'. ... It doesn't take much 'courage' to overcome a two-run lead in the ninth...
...will encounter such sharp or strange anonymities as the Polish proverb "God can shave without soap" or this definition of a suffragette (circa 1906): "One who has ceased to be a lady and not yet be come a gentleman." Of course there are omissions. Francis I's gallant "All is lost save honor" is quoted-and corrected-but Jim Fisk's complacent revision of it, substituting "nothing" for "all," does not appear. Kipling's "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke" is in its proper place (under Cigar, not Woman...