Word: gallant
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...touching tribute--this gallant Jersey gesture. Somehow when the world seems blue and clouds are gray and everything is in accordance with the best traditions of Irving Berlin, then it is pleasantly enervating to be showered with fulsome praise. Life, after all, is worth living and one can arise in the morning, or whenever one is accustomed to arise, with the feeling that there is something left--not much, but something. And if there is a slight miscalculation on the part of Princeton--no harm at all is done, for, as the Gilbert and Sullivan gendarmes sing...
Toward his writing, too, he will find a reaction. Here as in England people have decided that his glamor is false; that no one, except in books for maids and butlers, was ever so gallant, arrogant, terse of speech, deep of feeling, precious of wit as Mr. Arlen's high-strung Mayfairians...
...bays are due to Mr. Cumberland for a fine, well-rounded Pickwick; to Mr. McNaughton for his tireless Sam Weller, a rich part richly played; and to Mr. Miller for his melodramatic Alfred Jingle. The ladies are adequate and pleasant to look upon, but are necessarly subordinated to the gallant masculinity of the Pickwick Club. It is a man's evening and above all it is Mr. Dickens' evening...
...Harcourt, Brace ($2). Author Markey, the latest recruit to that swelling corps of young Manhattan newsgatherers who write disillusioned novels about wars, is not unaccomplished. His story has many an authentically stirring moment-a Yankee band challenging the Rebels with "Dixie" before the carnage at Fredericksburg; a sardonic Southern gallant shooting between his horse's ears on a midnight pursuit; the preparations for a lonely sabre duel; a bright-haired Richmond belle riding through magnolia-fragrant lanes and other pleasant spots. But the story itself is less satisfactory. The web of realism hangs loosely upon its romantic skeleton...
...gallant Major explained that a faulty oil pipe had caused his descent, in a rough sea, near the mouth of the Fatma River. Waves quickly smashed the plane. It was a hard mile swim to shore. Soon Moorish tribesmen swarmed over the wrecked plane, dug into the batteries for gold and silver, got nothing but a bad electric shock. From the aviators they took money and watches, cut the soles of their shoes for concealed gold. Later they marched the Major and his companions barefooted over the hot sands for many hours, hid them, in sacks on camels' backs while...