Word: gallanting
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Only four members of the Harvard club made it to Princeton, but the gallant Princeton players agreed not to require a forfeit of two of the six boards originally scheduled...
Malin said that he was not totally displeased with the team's effort because the competition was "unusually tough." The only real standout for the Crimson was fullback Steve Mead. He played a gallant game on defense, unfortunately on the losing side...
...catalogue of all the baser emotions. Her hands are a dithyrambic dialogue, as when she plays the castanets with her arms around Jose's neck (a genuine feat, considering the size of Tenor James McCracken). Horne may not so much dance as insinuate dance, and may need a gallant helping hand in order to hop on a chair at the end of her Gypsy Song, but she nonetheless succeeds in making Carmen a woman of real flesh and blood-earthy, unpredictable, infuriating, irresistible...
...Chaplin gets himself mistakenly arrested as a communist leader (and that one has to be seen to be believed), a poor street gamine (Paulette Goddarde) steals bananas. On the dry hot streets of Los Angeles in the middle of the depression the gamine is nearly arrested, until the gallant Chaplin recently released from jail, takes the rap. Chaplin takes us to jail with him, but only for the immortal nose-power scene is which the poor convict comes across a bit of cocaine and begins a series of pirouettes. Eventually, Chaplin encounters the gamine again in a paddy wagon from...
...girl, visibly troubled, asked the Harvard man whose name was on the check if he wouldn't tear it up so she and Champagne Chuck could eat next week. The Harvard man, who is not a gallant person, wasn't buying any of it. In the old days, when his roommate B. D. was quarterbacking the Yale varsity. Stewart never lost grocery money to anyone...