Word: gallant
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...world in a few years, that ten months later, in May 1941, he would be appealing to the much-tried German people to prepare themselves for war in 1942. When I look back on the perils which have been overcome, upon the great, mountainous waves through which our gallant ship has been driven, when I remember all that has gone wrong and also all that has gone right, I feel sure we have no need to fear the tempest. Let it roar, let it rage! We shall come through...
April 14-20. Under fearful bombing, shielded by a gallant Anzac rear guard, the British withdrew to Thermopylae, where the New Zealanders held the right to the sea, the Australians held passes to the left. Here it was that Imperial artillery fire was spectacularly effective, holding the enemy for four days and drawing German testimonies to the good marksmanship...
...visiting countess. With a strictly professional faint she snags a rich, romantic, somewhat addled bachelor (Roland Young). A Russian dandy (Mischa Auer) who knew her in St. Petersburg arrives, and the strain of playing two people in the same town drives her to marry, not the Creole gallant, but a handsome, young riverboat skipper (Bruce Cabot) who met her in the park one day when his monkey got fouled in her carriage...
Late in 1932 WXYZ's President George Washington Trendle got the idea that what he and radio needed was a William S. Hart of the air. Scripter Francis Striker, who had been grinding out a series called Warner Lester, Manhunter, concocted a story about a mysterious and gallant cowboy who fought against injustice of all sorts on the late 19th-Century western frontier. Earle Graser, one of half a dozen actors to be tried out, had just the right voice for the part-strong, romantic and confidence-winning...
Married. Ethel Woodward, socialite daughter of Banker-Sportsman William Woodward, owner of three Kentucky Derby winners (Gallant Fox, Omaha, Johnstown); and Philippe de Croisset, veteran of Dunkirk, son of the late Parisian Playwright François de Croisset; in Manhattan...