Word: gallant
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...Swift fought off six German destroyers in 1917. Three times since the War he has been given medals for saving life at sea. He has been C.-in-C. of the Australian Navy and has written a number of healthy adventure stories for boys. What took this most gallant officer to the blazing heat of Bechuanaland was the disgraceful conduct of a lecherous Scotsman known as Phineas Mackintosh...
...Turks under Sultan Mohammed IV made a last attempt to conquer Western Europe. An army of 400,000 men swept into Hungary and across the Danube to camp under the gates of Vienna. They never got inside. Vienna's defenses were in the hands of a peruked gallant, Count Rüdiger von Starhemberg, who had under him a man destined to be one of the world's great generals, Prince Eugene of Savoy. Again the victory was not truly Austria's. What sent the Turkish legions pell mell back across the plains of Hungary...
...Major Fey is the sort of character that feature writers love. Hawk-nosed, with a mouth like a wolftrap. Major Fey has a war record even more gallant than that of his Chancellor. There is in the Austrian Army a decoration that could exist in no other country. Marie Antoinette's smart mother the Empress Maria Theresa realized that the Habsburg Archdukes who commanded her divisions were not military geniuses. She established a medal, open to anyone, from general to corporal, who in wartime should carry out a maneuver against the orders of his superiors and should succeed...
...become friendly with the big-men in his racket, it is headed "J.P. Morgan and Co Points Way for Capone's Release," and is signed merely "Subscribe to the American Progress." So diplomacy may succeed where the gentle art of self-defense failed, and the best defense is a gallant offense such as libel. If Capone claims the reward from Colliers', Mr. Morgan, by putting the government on one of its fashionable lists will see that Capone is set free. Capone would no doubt like to round off the Century of Progress with a riotous New Year...
...record for a circular mile race of 1:34⅔. This year he has won all six of his races. The $17,230 he won last week made his total winnings $314,420-only less than Sun Beau's $376,744. Phar Lap's $332,250, Gallant Fox's $328,165. Two more races this season will give him a good chance to pass all but Sun Beau before he is retired for the winter. Grown docile, almost sleepy in demeanor, Equipoise gets a dinner of carrots before a race. On other days he is satisfied with...