Word: gallant
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...were Panama's Sefiorita Glara Gonzalez and Nicaragua's Senorita Juanita Fromen who ended her address with the ringing cry, "Equality between men and women in regard to nationality must be realized!" after which the I. C. W. adjourned to a jolly banquet at the cost of Havana's gallant Mayor...
...only a Frenchman but a gallant Frenchman, Author de Miomandre's criticism of Venus is usually tacit, always tempered with admiration. Though he writes as an historian, conscious of documents, it is his firm though undocumented belief that the goddess has returned to Mt. Olympus, where she dwells as beautiful, as potent, as ever...
Barrymore plays the part of the gallant, and still quite romantic, Count, who has lost his rightful domains because of some question of certificates. He is the son of a famous war-lord and a gypsy dancer, and maintains the reputation of both to the best of his ability. His main feats are saving the remains of a rapidly degenerating Hapsburg Empire through the medium of his mercenary soldiers, insulting an emperor and jilting an arch-duchess, marrying a gypsy girl (the trait seems to run in the family) with a rather lax set of morals, destroying the Hapsburg Empire...
...Curtis, Speaker Longworth, the British Ambassador in his red jacket. Finally the great White House gates swung open and Citizen Hunefeld marched grandly at the head of his procession up the curving sidewalk to the big glass doors of the White House. When these opened Citizen Hunefeld did a gallant thing: removing his cap, he stepped aside to allow Mrs. Barrett to lead the line past the President...
...Silver Tassie. The Irish Theatre, [nc., whose roster includes Scans, Culinans, MacGuffins, Ennises, Miceals, Patricks, Liams and Unas, whose sponsors include Llewellyn Powys, Donn Byrne's widow and Otto Hermann Kahn, have taken over the tiny but gallant Greenwich Village Theatre where for their first production of the season they present a haunting, chaotic play by famed Sean 0'Casey of Dublin, author of Juno and the Paycock (TIME, March 29, 1926). Through its symbolism and its brogue you discern the simple story of an Irish footballer who went to war and returned paralyzed below the waist...