Word: gallant
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...broken (TIME, Nov. 25), the Greeks continued pressing, working with geography instead of against it. Frantically, the Italians called on their Air Force to strafe and disperse the attackers, and for a day or two there was carnage around Corizza. Then the R. A. F. arrived to bolster the gallant but rickety Greek Air Force. In a few hours, Spitfires and Hurricanes smacked down so many Italians that toward the end of the battle not a Fascist wing dared come across that...
...Puerto Rico-two British freighters last week each reported sighting "a suspicious vessel." The Port Hobart, in the south, later reported she was being shelled, then fell silent. The Trehata, in the north, was not heard from again. The British Navy, busy searching for the killer who sank the gallant Jervis Bay on Nov. 5, could only conclude that not one but two German raiders were on the loose...
...better of the going, and the tide had almost turned Brown's way when one of MacKinney's punts had been blocked a minute or so earlier. MacKinney's pass interception was his final contribution to the game, and it was the beginning of the end for the gallant Bruins. Spreyer and Lyman kept the ball moving all the way to the goal...
...Ernest Hemingway created a stripped, hard-boiled prose for telling terse, hard-boiled stories about broken-down bullfighters, ham prizefighters, gallant trollops, homosexuals, mugs, spiritual victims of the war. "The lost generation" quickly turned his books into bestsellers, tried to talk like Hemingway characters as they sipped raw alcohol in speakeasies, tried to write Hemingway stories in garrets and penthouses. None wrote as well...
...which to blow off angry popular steam was old Mr. Chamberlain. The London Times bade him good-by by acknowledging that for more than three years he bore "a load of responsibility as heavy and thankless as any that was ever carried by a British Prime Minister. ..." Not so gallant, angry British masses have for months wanted him to take his umbrella, tuck it under his arm, and go back to manufacturing brass bedsteads in Birmingham. For in the British public mind, man and umbrella have come to symbolize an era of, to say the least, Damned Bad Management...