Word: gallant
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Running in this meet against Maryland and the University of Virginia in a one-mile relay, the Harvard team led until the final lap when O'Neil making a gallant bid for victory, fell, and Maryland took the race in hollow fashion...
...enlisted and fought in France for the Empire. Gallant, meteoric, he progressed to the Near East, and at barely 17 was made Governor of Zea (Ceos), an Aegean island on which he put down a rebellion, using British-French-Greek troops. Before the War ended he had returned to France, been wounded, then captured. When peace came he inherited $100,000 and tried to settle down. He is one Wilfred Thomas McCartney, British subject, even now barely...
...stories are not as sharp and sensitive as his quivering nose for news. Nonetheless, the title story, about a gallant deserter who, undemolished by a firing squad, returns after the late War to rescue his inamorata from marriage with an ogrish profiteer, is able romantic melodrama. Most of the other stories have the same rank in the same class. As a rule, they also have some connection with the late...
...vivid historical background, the nautical realism, there are five individual dramatic performances which transcend almost any recent histrionic portrayals of the cinema. Charles Farrell and Esther Ralston perform beautifully together; Wallace Beery and George Bancroft make the screen's best comic pair; and Johnny Walker as Decatur is a gallant and heroic figure. Of course, the "Constitution" has the lead and holds...
...smart summer town in Maine and for Claire's partner a youth whose adolescent romanticism is as vapid as a cloud. When, to impress his faithless inamorata, Nelson Smock paddled his canoe into the surf beyond the inshore calm, she, riding by in a motorboat with a different gallant, remained gay and callous. " 'Nelson,' Claire called, 'you have'nt any idea how funny you look...