Word: gallantly
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...real Wellington would have been less adept in saluting the sophisticated ladies of the French court, less solicitious about the brewing of his tea, perhaps more brusque and profane at the council table. And then a soldier must be a man who is willing to throw thousands of his gallant countrymen into the cannon's mouth to test the efficacy of a strategic principle. Mr. Arliss's "Wellington" would hardly have been able to do this. He would have thought, in his whimsical fashion, of the widows and orphans
...Embassy was forcing it to eat crow. Irate France demanded and received apologies for baseless charges recently circulated that handsome French Assistant Naval Attache Tessier Ducros has proved irresistible to 30 ladies, some of the highest Japanese nobility and gentry, others waitresses, professors' wives. In return for his gallant favors they were supposed to have slipped him slews of State secrets...
...until a credulous banker offers to lend him money on the security of the unfound trove. Meantime. The O'Flynn has enlisted on the side of William of Orange, only to fall in love with a noblewoman. Lady Benedette Mount-Michael (Lucy Monroe), whose sympathies are with' James. The gallant Irishman thereupon changes sides...
...military officer of the U. S. since the late, tempestuous George Custer has succeeded in publicly floundering in so much hot water as Smedley Darlington Butler. After a gallant career in all quarters of the globe with the Marines, General Butler was ''borrowed" by Philadelphia in 1924 to clean up that city's bootlegging. The hot-headed general resigned the following year, declaring that he had been made the respectable "front" for a gang of political racketeers. In 1927 he made front pages again by preferring charges of drunkenness against a Marine colonel in San Diego, Calif...
...three-man team, prospects in this class are not too gloomy. In the foils, he likewise has two veterans, Robert C. Ackerman '35, and Phillip E. Lilienthal '36, to serve as a nucleus for this year's trio. In that slashing, cutting, brutal weapon of the gallant Six Hundred, the sabre, Coach Peroy will also welcome back two veterans, Richard Morgan, IV '36, and Richard Morton '36, who worked together last winter...