Word: gallant
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...would inevitably be known as Big Con, for he is 6 ft. 4 in. tall and when he steps on the scales they whimper out 286 lb. He has blazing brown eyes and a magnificent head. With him are his wife, who headed the hospitals of Athens during the gallant six-month struggle, and three children, including his strapping, 23-year-old son, George, who had one more week to go on his medical studies when the invasion of Greece began...
Colonel Wedgwood's career shows some of the extraordinary vesatility of his distinguished ancestor, and it would be correct, as a result, to refer to him as a naval architect, a gallant army officer, an able historian, a tax expert, or a skillful parliamentarian, but not "merchant" and not "potter...
...wife's over-gallant, pestiferous insistence on not being left out of the fun; some neatly managed Anglo-American propaganda; a safe outcome for the adventure, with the tagline: "This isn't the end for any of us. It's just the beginning...
...docked at Samoa en route to Tahiti, she said, a middle-aged English-looking Frenchman named General Richard Edmond Maurice Edouard Brunot came aboard with Mme. Brunot and the General's aide, one Captain Frataux. On the trip to Tahiti, Joan Fontaine found that the Captain was as gallant as French officers are supposed to be, while the Brunots were extremely retiring. The General said nothing of his purposes and few of the Monterey's passengers so much as knew his rank...
...Yankee Chance by five; at New York's Belmont Park. Winner of this year's Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, Whirlaway is the fifth horse in the history of U.S. turf to win America's three major races for three-year-olds. Others: Sir Barton, Gallant Fox, Omaha, War Admiral. > Tennist Fred Perry, onetime British Davis Cupper now teaching tennis in the U.S.: an invitation Professional Round Robin Tennis championship (10% of receipts for British War Relief); defeating creaking, 48-year-old Bill Tilden (4-6, 0-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-2), up-&-coming Dick...