Word: gallantly
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...little pudgy, but he's a blue-ribbon darling in anybody's date book . . . Footloose and fancy-free." Georgia Senator Dick Russell (55): "At the very mention of his name, Washington widows heave and sigh . . . The darling of the Southland, has just about everything. He's gallant, handsome, debonair, wise and charming." Rhode Island Senator Theodore Green: "If it's money you're after . . . he's Mr. Moneybags himself. But don't expect this 85-year-old tennis player to lavish his wealth on a mere woman. Rumor has it that when...
...screen at the audience, which happens to be in the line of fire also occupied by a rattlesnake. In addition to this effect, The Charge at Feather River has knives, arrows, tomahawks, spears, bullets, bodies and horses hurtling out from the screen. There is also a story about a gallant little band of cavalrymen who set out, shortly after the Civil War, to rescue two white girls captured by the Indians, and end up triumphing over the redskins in a last-ditch stand at Colorado's Feather River...
...because police were ever watchful, even this line usually was delivered as nervously as though the gallant were trying to slip the senorita a love letter in church. At last, it got so that the most inspiring girl could move past a city block of curbside Romeos and hear only frustrated mumbles. Solemnly taking note, the Venezuelan newspaper El National last week reported that the piropo, once the boast of Maracaibo, is dead...
...Rome's Quirinale Palace, Clare Boothe Luce, the first woman to head a foreign diplomatic mission in Italy, met President Luig? Einaudi, to present her credentials as the new U.S. Ambassador. As she left after a ten-minute, closed-door chat, a photographer caught an act of gallant politesse in the courtyard: a deep bow of welcome from Presidential Aide Count Giovanni Piccolomini (and a stolid look of approval from one of the servants...
...failure of the quartermaster to keep him adequately supplied which Rommel blames for his ultimate defeat beginning at El Alamein. Even in his gallant tribute to the man who beat him, he injects a bitter note on the Eighth Army's superior supply situation: "Montgomery did not leave the slightest detail out of his calculations . . . His principle was to fight no battle unless he knew for certain he would win it. Of course, that is a method that will only work given material superiority; but that he had ... It would be difficult to accuse Montgomery of ... a serious strategic...