Word: gallant
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What happens thereafter is a gallant defense of all the cinematic wall-mottoes which have grown dusty since the talkies. Jack Daugherty learns to like milking cows. He becomes the idol of the orphans, falls in love with pure, sweet Peggy. When the owners of the farm mortgage threaten to foreclose, he risks his freedom by going to the city to fight a touring heavyweight champion. He loses but earns the necessary funds. The Manhattan detective who recognizes him at the ringside is so touched by Jimmy Dolan's moral rehabilitation that, when the fight is over, he neglects...
...innocent young girl (June Clyde), whose father had been associated with the Scarlet Ring. The gunfire having ceased, she is about to be married to her fiance. "Will you give me away?'' she asks Sherlock Holmes. "I never give a lady away," replies the gallant detective...
...government) party; he needs the Heimwehr too, now holding the balance of power. His wearing of the Jager uniform was romantic bait for the patriotic Heimwehr. More bait was dangled in the rumor that the Austrian Army will soon shuck its dull German field-grey, re-emerge in the gallant blue of the old K.u.K (Kaiserliche und Königliche) Armee, long vanished from the modern world except in Hollywood cinemas. Such a uniform, besides snubbing Germany, would remind Hungarians that they had once marched beside Austrians in that uniform, would suggest an Austro-Hungarian combine...
...Disappointed and infuriated by their failure to find the sheets which had previously been hidden, their numbers now increased to ten, the invaders took their revenge by binding and gagging J. M. Boyd '35, CRIMSON editor, who was at the time working in the building. In spite of the gallant attempt at rescue made by R. P. Buch '34, and the effective defense afforded by the shovel of Adolph, veteran janitor, who was subsequently imprisoned in the boiler room, the visitors succeeded in driving Buch out of the building and into the inner sanctuary of the Catholic church. They immediately...
...have no doubt that he was a gallant officer," observes her father, "but he was no businessman. He was simply no businessman...