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Witnesses for the bride were the French Army's taut, terrier-like Chief of Staff General Max Weygand and equally intense onetime Premier and present Minister Without Portfolio André Tardieu. About all that gallant Paris correspondents permitted themselves to say of the bridegroom, M. Antoine Rieder, was that he had as his witness the Military Governor of Paris, grim-browed General Henri Gouraud...
When the 79-year-old author of My Boy Franklin lately landed in Britain gallant London editors surpassed themselves in honoring the President's mother. One even went so far as to hail her as WORLD'S MOST WONDERFUL WOMAN...
...Woodrow Wilson was a gallant lover, an ardent wooer. His anxiety to make a good impression was delightful. He seemed no more certain of success than any other man might and he exhausted all the tricks of this old trade. . . . The President had a private tele phone wire run from his bedroom to Mrs. Gait's house. He wrote her long letters. . . . The Library of the White House not supplying him with sufficient quotations, he called on the Library of Congress for poetic phrases. Flowers were ordered for her daily . . . purple orchids. These carried a special message . . . and when...
Decorously last week London bankers alluded to the days when Britain was really profligate-days when she had borrowed nothing from undiscovered America; days of glory when her conquering Edward III, founder of the gallant Order of the Garter, proclaimed himself King of France; days of shame when he beggared the Florentine bankers who had financed his victories by brazenly defaulting Britain's war debt in the year...
Another interesting group is the collection of short, frequently excellent lyrics which Mr. Craig has chosen. These show the Spanish-Americans in a gay, tipping, gallant mood. One could almost compare them to some of the Elizabethan sonnets and short poems on inconsequential but very pleasant subjects...