Word: gallant
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...situation was best described in a political cartoon of the moment: A valet, perched precariously on a window-ledge and peeking in through a lighted window at a damsel within, gestured excitedly to a gallant standing below. Another gallant was striding off down the street, having evidently refused the invitation. The gallant under the window eyed his departing peer. What...
...Congo was lavished by Wicked Uncle Leopold chiefly upon public works* in Belgium ; secondarily upon his many and riotously extravagant mistresses; and lastly upon his Queen, Marie Henriette, "The Rose of Brabant," a great-niece of Marie Antoinette, a great-granddaughter of Maria Theresa, and "lovelier than either" -as gallant King Leopold often told her. . . . Uncle Leopold visited the Congo as Monarch about 1860, receiving abject homage. Nephew Albert toured the Congo in 1909 as Crown Prince. This, the present state visit of King Albert, is a reap-parition royale after 19 years. Significant was the cordial approval of Queen...
After the War (during which he secured dimes from school children to pay for a battleship) Promoter Crandall took up residence in Pittsburgh, where he attended to the public relations of the Rollin Clark Circuit. Last year, he felt again the desire for greater, more gallant enterprises. Desiring to resuscitate and improve an old-fashioned amusement, he bought a dance hall and started his first dance marathon...
...TIME. . . . Sometimes I wonder if Voltaire or Anatole France are not included in the editorial staff. As a foreigner, in order to get a closer glimpse of American spirit I have read almost every kind of journalism actually published, and in my opinion, TIME gets the highest praise. The gallant stubbornness of its statements as well as the solid documentation in the background are amazing, and in addition you can always sense a subtle circumspection...
...almost instant cinema fame. Two years ago, his entertainment was impeccable. Since then his expression has taken on a tired, wooden, what-does-it-matter manner. In his latest film, A Night of Mystery, adapted from Victorien Sardou's Ferreol, he puts on the silken cloak of a gallant French officer as yawningly as a dull waiter ties a greasy apron around his belly. Mr. Menjou as Captain Ferreol is confronted with a tough problem: he must either reveal his onetime relations with a lady whom he had loved illicitly or allow the brother of his own fiancee...