Word: gallantly
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...official publication date, Salinger's followers queued up, and bookstores sold out their first supplies. To a large extent, the excitement is fueled by memories of Salinger's most famous work. For of all the characters set to paper by American authors since the war, only Holden Caulfield, the gallant scatologer of The Catcher in the Rye, has taken flesh permanently, as George F. Babbitt, Jay Gatsby, Lieut. Henry and Eugene Gant took flesh...
...runners and white slavers." In Mila 18, there are both good and bad Jews. The bad ones assist the Nazis in the systematic extermination of their fellow Jews of the Warsaw ghetto. The archvillains are the Germans-all cynics, slobs, sycophants and sadists. The hero, Andrei Androfski, leads the gallant last-ditch uprising out of the sewers and bunkers of Warsaw, but the only time he breaks down and weeps is over the death of his horse Batory, "the finest, the most beautiful and the most fierce animal in all of Poland...
...Fayette married Adrienne d'Ayen. The bride had barely left the altar when she was forced to begin a lifelong struggle to preserve her marriage to the soldier who became a hero of the American Revolution, a prime mover of the French Revolution, and a roving gallant who collected mistresses like medals...
Unsurprisingly, the reaction of Virginia's white leaders was loud and clear. "The gallant little county," cried Senator Harry Byrd, "is fighting against great odds to protect a principle it believes to be right." Governor J. Lindsay Almond sought to reassure Virginians that Attorney General Kennedy was not trying to close all schools in the state, but only to reopen Prince Edward County's schools...
...Only Child, by Frank O'Connor. Born in a Cork slum, the author writes with cheerful clarity of his pitiable boyhood and his fey, gallant mother...