Word: gallantly
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...than Rosie, once broke the Casino at Cannes, won 12,000,000 francs in two days of baccarat at Le Touquet and skinned a notorious character named Amletto Battisti of 5,000,000 francs at Nice. One morning, strolling down the Esplanade at Cannes on the arm of a gallant London department store tycoon, she spotted a 52-carat, $250,000 diamond ring in a jeweler's window and wheedled him into buying it on the spot. All this & more she eventually spent or hocked...
...soldiers. Major Baum, hospitalized and back in the U.S., offered an explanation which Patton himself did not think to mention. The 4th Division was able to pile through for a gain of 140 miles as a result of the confusion created among the Germans by Baum's gallant force...
...Whirlaway, $561,161; Seabiscuit, $437,730; Sun Beau, $376,744; Alsab, $350,015; Equipoise, $338,610; Challedon, $334,660; Phar Lap, $332,350; Gallant Fox, $328,165; Shut Out, $317,507; Busher...
...Came Along (Hal Wallis-Paramount) almost justifies the people who "don't want to cry at the movies because there's enough sadness in the world already." Striving bravely, in the best tradition of air-corps romance, to maintain a gallant gaiety in the face of impending doom, the picture fails completely to realize that its tears are obviously glycerine, its poignance pointless, and its gloom only a studio fog obscuring what should be a wholly delightful comedy...
...reasons for this damage was finally passed by censors: the gallant little ships (destroyers, destroyer escorts, LCSs) which formed the "picket line" 25 to 50 miles above the main anchorage had been severely mauled. By staying out front, the little ships with thin hulls had been able to warn the big transports and gunnery ships of approaching Jap planes. But they became the first Okinawan targets in the sights of the Jap suicide planes, . and they took the greatest concentrated damage, plus more than 1,000 casualties...