Word: gallant
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...plain name) insisted he keep their engagement secret for awhile. When weeks went by without a letter from him, Irma grew anxious, went to Washington. Daniel reassured her, but soon the truth came out: he was head-over-heels in love with beautiful Mrs. Miller. Irma was heartbroken but gallant. Just in time to save the situation and the Congressman's soul came a curious concatenation of circumstances : the stockmarket crashed and took his amateurish speculations with it; beautiful Mrs. Miller hooted with laughter at the suggestion that she divorce her husband and marry Dan; a heinous appropriation bill...
...Stella Polaris, a sturdy 6,000-ton steamer, announced in London that Lieut.-Commander J. R. Stenhouse would take a group of tourists to Antarctica. Last fortnight, a pleasant-faced woman engaged passage for the cruise. She was Emily Dorman Lady Shackleton, the lady whom the late gallant Sir Ernest Shackleton left behind him for the third and last time, when he embarked on the Antarctic trip that killed him nine years ago. She wanted to see the white frozen country where his body lies. But the Stella Polaris will not put in at South Georgia where he is buried...
Illinois. Most spectacular of Democratic senatorial victories throughout the land occurred when James Hamilton Lewis roundly defeated Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick's ambition to be the first woman elected to the Senate. Senator-elect Lewis, ever the begloved, bewhiskered, bowing gallant, had made a Wet, witty campaign against Mark Hanna's Prohibition-weasling daughter. He had convulsed his audiences with mock embarrassment at being "pursued by two lovely ladies" (Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neill was a Dry independent also-ran), with references to Mrs. McCormick's attempt to be a "dripping Venus rising from the sea of Chicago." Even...
...Harvard Gallant in Defeat...
Harvard was gallant in defeat, stronger than it had ever been in any game this year. Although outrushed, the Crimson made this up with an overwhelming superiority in the aerial game, gaining almost three times as much by passes as the Wolverines. But the visitors had a decided scoring punch which they unleashed at the proper moment and which eradicated any supremacy which Harvard might have shown up to that time...