Word: gallant
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...Putnam ($2). Among the quaint mysteries that survived the Civil War was that of The Messenger, or as she was later called, the Woman on Horseback, who rode back and forth through the Union lines apparently without the least difficulty and, according to rumor, often to the delight of gallant Union officers. This tale, a thoroughbred love story, purports to be that strange lady's biography...
...Pompeian Swimming Pool" with her daughter Princess Ileana and son, Prince Nicholas; took tea with Mrs. Woodrow Wilson in the latter's stateroom; visited the engine-room and shook hands with several minions who had been provided with white gloves against this contingency; was informed by a gallant engine oiler that Rumanian engine oil is best; was presented with what the donors described as "the finest watch in the World" (smaller than a dime) by high seas representatives of the New York News Photographers' Association who snapped Her Majesty incessantly; visited the steerage and kissed there a Rumanian...
General von Seeckt discovered by a tactful question that the once so exalted princess did not want her Wilhelm to enlist in the Army for twelve years, as all German soldiers must, under the terms of the Versailles Treaty. Princess Cecilia desired instead that the so gallant General should wink at the presence of her son with the Ninth Regiment during the Reichswehr's fall maneuvers (TIME, Sept. 27). Of course this could be arranged...
...Italian peasants curse gallant Umberto Nobile...
...Author of this brave work is a handsome, grizzled relation of Architect Christopher Wren (1632-1723), now not far from 60, who has occupied his lively mind with fiction-writing since terminating a most gallant career in his motherland's military and the French Foreign Legion. He has never visited the U. S., but will soon, ostensibly to sample the California climate but also to see with his own eyes large masses of the people whose literary a.nd cinematic blood-thirst has caused his last two books to sell into the hundreds of thousands. Big-game hunter, explorer, golfer...