Word: gallant
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...those bright November days of 1493, the fleet gaily coasting along the lofty verdure-clad Antilles with trade-wind clouds piling up over their summits and rainbows bridging their deep-cleft valleys; of the nights when he lay quietly at anchor in the lee of the land with his gallant fleet all about, stars of incredible brightness overhead, and hearty voices joining in the evening hymn to the Blessed Mother...
...Reginald ("Daisy") Fellowes, daughter of a French duke, onetime Princesse de Broglie and friend of the Duchess of Windsor, announced herself the marraine or "godmother" not of one French soldier - the usual thing - but of an entire battalion of Chasseurs Alpins (Blue Devils), traditionally agile and gallant French fighters: She sends them English blankets and every other sort of costly trench luxury, keeps her daughters madly knitting. Recently when "Daisy" visited her delighted chasseurs they did everything they could think of to show their gratitude, including a dash up among snow-crested crags to shoot chamois for her lunch...
...also full of snowmen, slides, sleds, and a great sense of novelty. On Peachtree Street, in Atlanta, art students snowsculpted Scarlett O'Haras, painted them with insect sprayers. Although his paper contained stories about oil heaters that had exploded, people who had been hurt in falls, gallant old Frederick Sullens, editor of the Jackson, Miss. Daily News, refused to be downcast, summed up a lot of Southern feeling: "No form of weather is more fascinating than a heavy snowstorm," he wrote. "To be moving about in the open when the great fat flakes are falling is something to delight...
...show of Argentine art ever put on outside South America. Said Argentine Ambassador Felipe A. Espil: "A country's artistic creations are the best exponents of its psychology and temperament." Eighty-year-old Counselor Robert Walton Moore of the U. S. Department of State agreed, but as a gallant Virginian made one exception: "Whenever I see Madame Espil I realize that, much as I love art, I love nature more...
...Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A girl named Dain, and "I," a young man, unmarried, without money, in love, take a shack and shift for themselves on the Cornish coast. The young man writes books, from which he gets too little money; the young woman works very hard and is very "gallant." The arduous simplicities of their living and their small adventures are described in great detail; they have a baby; they are very happy indeed. Warm readers will find the tale disarming; cool readers may wonder whether love so nearly cloudless is interesting enough to write or read about...