Word: gallant
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...Russia. The city built 200-odd years ago by Peter the Great on the banks of the Neva flourished under the name of St. Petersburg. But the War taught us that St. Petersburg was a naughty German way of saying what the Russians, who were then our brave and gallant Allies, called Petrograd. So Petrograd it became. Maps were being changed so much that cartographers did not object...
...Prince of Wales who did not look as prepossessing as he. Mr. Barrymore's remarkable virtuosity enables him to look like Adonis at the height of the Beau's career; like Ernest Torrence upon his downfall; like Lon Chancy as the palsied wreck of the once famed gallant. The story really has its climax at the start, and its romance ebbs and flows uncertainly. But it is held together by the power of Barrymore's true impersonation and startling makeup. The dawning of a little intelligence in his eyes just before the Beau's death...
...British airmen. Colonel L. E. Broome, advance agent of the British expedition, had indeed suggested a race. But General Patrick, U. S. Chief of Air Service, very wisely refused to accept the challenge. To speed the American flight would seriously strain the equipment and increase the hazard of our gallant officers...
...ashamed to wear the uniform which identifies him with his cause. Would you, pacifists, heroes of a nobler (and safer) strife be ashamed to put on some uniform which would identify you with your principles?--a uniform say of bright yellow cloth with a cap set off by a gallant white feather...
...enemy attack grows hotter has been all too common this season. It is hard to put one's finger on the weak link in the Harvard armor--certain it is that the players have not failed to fight all the harder as they have seen victory ebbing away. The gallant struggle put up tonight by Captain Gordon and his men aroused the handful of Crimson supporters to a high pitch of enthusiasm and evoked the praise of the most dyed-in-the-wool Eli sympathizers. It was distinctly a defeat with honor; but a defeat, even with honor, is scant...