Word: gallant
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...play in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Tennessee's opponent: Howard Jones's undefeated Southern California powerhouse (often referred to this season as "three of the four best teams on the West Coast"), which was held to a 0-to-0 tie by gallant U. C. L. A. last week before 103,300 wild-voiced Los Angeles fans...
...Three gallant undergraduates saved both the life of an aged woman and the remains of a ramshackle dwelling in a huge fire that menaced the safety of the residents of the peaceful hamlet of Florence, Massachusetts...
...when the race was for three-year-olds only, famed War Admiral came close to being humiliated by a horse named Masked General; in 1938 gallant Seabiscuit proved his superiority over War Admiral, his longtime rival, in their first get-together...
...blue sapphire, a memory of childhood, and a "gallant Gesture,"--these are the elements which Percival Wren molded into a chivalric romance set in his own time, the dying days of the Victorian era. Hs novel forms such exciting dramatic material that countless actors of stage and screen have tried their hand at it. Latest are Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, and Robert Preston as the "Beau Geste" trio...
Although, in this day and age, it seems silly rather than heroic for three grown men to dash off into the Sahara for the sake of a "gallant gesture," there is little to criticize in the production itself. William Well man is too good a director and Gary Cooper too good an actor to start letting their audiences down at this stage of the game. They have cooked up a show in the best traditions of his adventure, complete with a fort in the desert and thousands and thousands of Arabs biting the dust. There's the character...