Word: gallant
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...have Signor Benito Mussolini call upon her at her out-of-the-way little part-of-a-palace; to have him stay nearly an hour and quite unbend; to have him say gallant, flattering things and laugh his infectious laugh-such not long ago was the reward of a U. S. widow, Mrs. Henriette Tower Wurts, when she gave her sumptuous, ancient Roman gardens to the City of Rome and threw in $50,000 for perpetual upkeep. She received the double reward last week of an invitation to Edda Mussolini's wedding...
...gallant, flattering thing said to Mrs. Wurts by II Duce...
...Gallant Fox, Derby favorite, three-year-old bay of the Belair stud, strong and heavily built, in tremendous lines of speed and strength: the $10,000 Wood Memorial stakes at Jamaica N. Y., with Earle Sande up, riding his first New York race since...
...anywhere you're going. I believe that humanity reached its highest point there, easily, joyously. . . . There's nothing beyond Aeschylus, nothing beyond Plato, nothing beyond Socrates. . . . It's a pity there ever was such a thing as Christianity! One might have lived so well worshiping Jupiter, Mercury, all those gallant deities...
...What, my gallant Marshal, . . . were you so afraid of my counterthrust? Or had it occurred to you that if, as was probable, I died before you, I should for ever have remained post mortem, under the weighty burden of your accusations? . . . Ah, Foch! Foch! . . . What a stain on your memory that you had to wait so many years to give vent to childish recriminations against me through the agency of another, who, whatever his merits, knew not the War as you and I lived...