Word: gallant
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...naval officer left a Honolulu dinner party to walk home. Five men, presumably Orientals, dragged her into their automobile, smashed her jaw, carried her to Waikiki Beach where they raped her, tossed her into a ditch. Honolulu was outraged, for the young woman was the daughter of a gallant soldier, the granddaughter of one of the world's greatest inventors. Her name, though known, is mentioned as rarely as possible in the Press in order to save her from further embarrassment...
...Bishop William Thomas Manning's rich Cathedral of St. John the Divine, long abuilding in Manhattan, Banker William Woodward, whose racehorses (Gallant Fox [retired], Sir Ashley, Sir Andrew, et al.) have won $89.543 in purses this year, gave $80,000 for a rose window 40 ft.in diameter, in memory of his parents and his uncle James T. Woodward (from whom he inherited his estate at Bel Air, Md., his large holdings in Central Hanover Bank & Trust...
...news of her father's defeat, pretty Miss Ma Shu-chin, 19, quit her girls' hoarding school at Tokyo and sailed for Manchuria, serenely confident that the gallant Japanese military would pass her through their lines to General...
German aviators buried with honors a gallant young enemy, Quentin Roosevelt, who crashed over their lines...
...musical interludes between the fast-moving scenes. It is probably because the piece is advertised as "Dickensy" that most of the players overact atrociously. George Carney, new to Manhattan, is earthy, rugged, ap- pealing as Jess Oakroyd. Valerie Taylor (Peter Ibbetson, Petticoat Influence) does a good job as gallant, eager Miss Trant. Hugh Sinclair plays Inigo Jollifant languidly in soprano. Sample humor: "Oh, you have a nasty mind; you must be on the Vice Committee." "What? A teetotaler? He's a newspaper man!" "Get up at six-thirty? Why, there's no such hour!" Oldtime note: false posterior...