Word: gallant
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...Liberty, Mrs. Florence Jaffray ("Daisy") Harriman, Washington socialite and politician, wrote a list of "Ten Best-Mannered men in America." She gave first rank to former Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (''always the gallant gentleman"), second place to Irvin...
Amid a low huzza of Bronx cheers a gallant one-hundred-and-six Harvard men heard themselves fined for parking violations Saturday morning. Unfortunately they have no complaint, for their arrests were lawful, and there is no reason why they should have been warned, knowing Cambridge police as they do. However there should be some place where students can park their cars over night without submitting to the efficient mulcting administered by the more convenient of the Harvard Square garages...
...hero (George Brent) to be true to her husband (John Miljan) who is opportunely snared by another woman (Adrienne Dore). Miss Chatterton is free to suffer a little, agreeably, and say the right, the irreproachable things to her husband's hussy. She gets a divorce and is gallant by transatlantic telephone. Men try to forget her but cannot. She fights against her better instincts but all she has are better instincts. When her ex-husband is badly hurt and his new wife killed in an automobile accident she rushes from George Brent to hold her ex-husband...
...least assure you this: No parents could have a more heroic son than Robert who gave up his own life that others might live. He dared Might and died to defend Right for humanity and civilization. To say that he was fighting for China alone would be belittling his gallant and humanitarian deed, because it is for humanity and justice that he died. The name of Robert Short will live long in the scroll of honor of great men, and his meritorious service will ever be in the memory of all Chinese...
...Doctor's laboratory, as in a test tube, the Doctor's human isolation is broken down by the alchemical tricks of his more or less than human friends. The white rat, the tip of whose brain has been removed, can still show his master how gallant, how thoughtful a lover he can be to the soft white beauty who builds a nest of newspapers in the desk. Vicious, the little green parrot, loves to lie under the Doctor's coat when he goes to the symphony; warm and still, she chews his tie, his shirt. Only once...