Word: gallant
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...more gallant place to hold such a concert than Fogg Museum would be hard to find: to suggest unblemished taste, few places would be better...
...expert at slashing red tape, "Buck" Jones moved fast. "By noon of next day," he says, "we had found nearly a third of the Havana medical faculty-working as nurses and orderlies, or opening lobsters in restaurants, or running cars at the beach hotels." By that night, in a gallant gesture, Dr. Jones put all the Cuban medical teachers on salary as visiting professors at his own school...
...donated them to the San Francisco museum. When she heard that the Matisse show was coming to town, she persuaded the museum to track down as many Stein paintings as it could for a special exhibition that might persuade the city to buy the collection back. It was a gallant, if unrealistic hope -and a tribute to Sarah, who had. as Matisse said shortly before she died, "so often sustained...
...exhausting for anyone-even though Jackie occasionally managed to sleep late. But there was more to come. At week's end she flew into Udaipur for a restful stay at the palace of its Maharana before embarking on a five-day visit to Pakistan and its gallant, military-trained President Ayub Khan...
Williams has peopled the U.S. stage with characters whose vibrantly durable presences stalk the corridors of a playgoer's memory: Amanda Wingfield, the fussy, garrulous, gallant mother of Glass Menagerie; Streetcar's Blanche DuBois, Southern gentlewoman turned nymphomaniac, and its Stanley Kowalski, the hairy ape in a T shirt...