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...imagination boggles at the extent of the deficit now contemplated," chimed in Viscount Rothermere's Daily Mail. "The whole Roosevelt program," summed up Baron Camrose's Daily Telegraph;, "is a gallant defiance of orthodoxy...
...Emden, almost at the end of its fuel after a spectacular career among Allied shipping in the Far East, was cornered off the Cocos Islands by the Australian cruiser Sydney, beached and burned with a great loss of life among the Emden's crew. The Emden's gallant Captain Karl von Müller was captured and idolized as a good sport by Australians. The Emden's ship's bell was salvaged to become the Commonwealth's greatest Naval trophy. It was Sydney's pride in particular, and in Sydney's War Museum...
...Gallant Lady (20th Century) registers once more Hollywood's conviction that Ann Harding finds it difficult to reconcile her love life with a career. Since she divorced Harry Bannister two years ago because he was "becoming a background for my activities and looked upon as 'Ann Harding's husband,' " her producers have persistently set her to exploring marital problems of the day. Gallant Lady, a courteous description of a self-consciously noble character, catches up themes familiar to her recent pictures. Instead of the lovelorn plastic surgeon in The Right to Romance, blonde Actress Harding this...
...President had come to state his policies on Latin-American affairs rather than praise his Wartime chief. In the few passages where Wilson was touched upon, however, his former disciple was affectionate if not fervid. While assuring his audience that "we do not contemplate membership," President Roosevelt tried gallantly to put a good face on the scuttled League of Nations. He felt himself on surer ground when, praising Wilson's advocacy of peace, he declared: "The imagination of the masses of world population was stirred, as never before, by President Wilson's gallant appeal to them - to those...
Riding in a drag hunt near her estate at Aiken, S. C. was U. S. polo's gallant, white-haired Matriarch Louise Eustis Hitchcock, 68, mother of "Tommy" Hitchcock Jr., longtime No. i U. S. poloist, aunt of George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, No. 1 U. S. steeplechaser. Hot on the trail of her baying beagles. Matriarch Hitchcock urged her mount to a stiff hurdle, was catapulted to earth when it faltered and fell. Fully conscious, she was carried to her home, where doctors found that two broken neck vertebrae had partly paralyzed her right arm, completely paralyzed her right...