Word: gallant
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...face trial. Shocking to Frenchmen who have for years been taxed to the eyes for armaments was the lack of planes when war broke loose. In returning from the U. S., M. La Chambre either believed he could shift the blame on his predecessors or was making a gallant gesture...
...intend to fall in love until I am 23. I believe love is something you can ward off if you wish, and I wish to. When I do fall in love I will prefer a European man, an Englishman or an Austrian. They usually are more powerful, strong, gallant and charming than American men." In Los Angeles Mrs. Josephine Dillon Gable, greying, fiftyish, dramatic coach and onetime (1923-30) wife of Clark Gable, petitioned for the right to drop her last name. Said she: "I have been hounded to death by promoters who want to sell me schemes for exploiting...
...place: Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary. The purpose: to unify the thought of democracy, make it a united spiritual and intellectual force. The cast: seven Nobel laureates, a dozen college presidents, a host of philosophers, scientists, teachers, theologians. Altogether, over 600 representatives from 165 institutions attended, made a gallant effort to piece together the tree of knowledge which for more than a century men had busily sawed into separate branches...
Sincere, hearty, full of gallant buck-you-uppo, most of Priestley's remarks have been right down the U. S. alley. On food: "You can eat yourself sick if you want to, but of course it is very nice to have a parcel of America's noblest produce including perhaps a bottle of rye or bourbon." On parashots: "There we were-ploughman and parson, shepherd and clerk, turning out at night as our forefathers had often done before us, to keep watch and ward over the sleeping hills and fields and homesteads...