Word: gallanting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from leukemia, he is treated with the inevitable escalation of drugs, yet his condition deteriorates. His Jewish-mother-type wife and his daughters-one, the narrator, married with two daughters; the other, the novel's problem child, unmarried and with one foot in the Beat scene-observe his gallant but losing battle...
...rear admiral's stripes locating airfield sites for the Navy in Greenland. Now 92 and living in peppery retirement in Provincetown, Mass., Old Mac bestirred himself to Boston last week, where he accepted the $5,000 Washburn Award from the Museum of Science as "the last and gallant survivor of America's most thrilling era of terrestrial geographic discovery...
Redeeming Facts. Unfortunately, Elliot Arnold, a sometime screen writer (Flight from Ashiya, Broken Arrow), comes close to tarnishing a gallant tale by treating it with shabby slickness. He lays out staccato scenes in simplistic scenarist terms and somehow manages to include every cliche possible-plus a few that are highly improbable...
...regiments involved, now sadly lost in amalgamation, I observe with regret that your commentator on "Richardson's Folly," or whatever the new celluloid crucifixion of the Light Brigade [Aug. 4] is to be entitled, is ignorant of the history of the brigade and its gallant-but monotonously misrepresented-charge. Let him remember that the "military caste system" Miss Woodham-Smith so coldly indicts produced, along with all the other "rank incompetents," such commanders as Marlborough, Wolfe, Wellington-and, indeed, Washington...
...last, it was time to speed home on the honeymoon to rejoin their son. Still, their troubles were not quite over. For nearly two hours the next morning, they waited while the plane's engines were repaired. Nor could the newlyweds sit next to each other until a gallant stranger offered to change his seat. At last they were together and on their way. Had they found true happiness? "Oh yes!" cried the new Countess Harewood. "That's an unnecessary question...