Word: gallant
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...streak through the air, with gallant Major Mario de Bernardi as pilot, gave Italy a new record for speed flying last week. Piloting a special seaplane, the Italian ace averaged 318.57 miles an hour over a measured course, at times going 350 miles an hour. The previous record was his own, 296.94 miles an hour, established last November...
...that the World War Armistice was signed, Nov, 11, 1918, gallant Canadian troops took Mons. Recently a Canadian journal, the Port Hope Guide, said scathingly of this action...
Upon the death of this so suave and perfect gallant, Her Majesty wrote...
...attempted" because somewhere up there, at the Top of the Widener, swept by the mighty corridor drafts that are forever playing about the summit, stained by the thousand changes of weather and the weekly change of floor-mops, lie the bones of two gallant gentlemen, my friends, two of the bravest explorers that ever cheated a native...
...Robert E. Lee were accustomed to attend services in St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Richmond, Va. The most fashionable church in the South, its pews were filled every Sunday with arch, starched ladies, who often took only a perfunctory interest in the services, and elaborately gallant grandees who, with some show of munificence, dropped their confederate greenbacks into the collection plate. St. Paul's is still a fashionable church. Its rector, the Rev. Dr. Beverley Dandridge Tucker Jr., last week pleased most of his parishioners, surprised some of them, as he surprised many other Episcopalians, by announcing...