Word: gallant
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...days when jazz was the finest expression of The American Ideal and a bulwark of democracy. When those things go, where is America? But I have been trying to uplift the present stuff and even my enemies, of whom I have legion, will admit that my attempt has been gallant. I am, of course, well-known in all circles where the righteous jumpin' Jive is purveyed and I am confident that my influence is a steadying and inspiring...
...Detachment) were to World War I, the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) are to this one-tens of thousands of British women, mostly below 40, enlisted to serve with the British Expeditionary Force. Besides driving cars, ATS duties include clerking, signaling, courier service, running canteens. Like the VADS, the gallant ATS come in for a lot of British ragging. Because their daily basic meat ration is 8 oz. (compared to about 3 oz. for civilians), the Daily Express calls them EATS. Because they are invited en masse to Army dances and sociables, their love life is an inexhaustible subject for wisecracks...
...medium, his work, what it means - and doesn't mean - and how it is acted. Where there are no facts he makes no effort to invent any. His own remarks are distinguished by unusual common sense. The common sense changes Hamlet from Weltschmerz in tights to a gallant and proficient Renaissance prince; proclaims that Shylock cannot be whitewashed but is a definitely anti-Semitic creation ; underestimates such dull-acting but extraordinary poems as Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus; insists the plays should be read aloud, staged with a minimum of scenery and business. There have been more brilliant and more...
...encased in a small, closet-like cubicle. A maze of dangerous looking wires surrounded him on all sides. Bright lights shone in his eyes until everything had assumed an unpleasant roseate hue. Summoning all his bewildered faculties, he made a gallant effort to concentrate on the mirror in front of him which, under the glare of the strong lights, looked like a blazing inferno. Now Vag knew what it meant to be given the third degree...
...marraine (godmother) to one Gilbert La Planche, 18, French aviator now in active service near the Maginot Line. Allowed to choose the name of their squadron, Gilbert's mates took his suggestion arid the name "Escadrilie Virginia." Virginia had her picture taken knitting a sweater for her gallant, unseen Gilbert...