Word: gallantly
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...pedestrians should have "kept to the left," by command of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini; but until last week the order was never enforced. A young or pretty transgressor would experience no more than a gallant pressure upon the arm from a policeman who murmured mellifluently, "Sinistra, Signora." Usually the pressure and the suggestion were ignored by willful females, stubborn males-until last week...
...usual, when the not yet officially open short wave radio-telephone station at Buenos Aires was placed at the disposal of a somewhat sick and very wealthy woman who desired to consult her physician in Berlin "about a private illness." After a 20-minute conversation, she emerged beaming, reassured. Gallant reporters concealed her identity...
Nobody would have believed that Davey "play-acted" a gallant knight outnumbered and surrounded by ruffians, but Sophie of the flaming red pigtails had caught him at it, and all her life she tried to reconcile that adventurous romantic spirit with the David, right hand man at the bank, David, beloved servant of the community, David, matter-of-course slave to his relatives. "Perhaps Davey will see his way clear to ..." send a bespectacled niece to finishing school, house a carping old-maid cousin, finance the whims and mistresses of a charming but debauched artist brother. Sophie married Davey...
...Body yet? Crictics, call it has greatest American poem--but its as fascinating as a novel and just as easy to read. Nearly a hundred thousand people have discovered that here at last is a poem more thrilling than fiction--a poem of glamorous history, inspiring biography, tender, gallant romance...
...Crown Prosecutor in 1923 with malfeasance and accepting funds from private corporations; but a Newfoundland grand jury found "no bill," and the nasty charges blew over. Triumphantly last week Sir Richard counted up 28 seats for his party, against the Government's 12 in a Parliament of 40. Gallant, the man with the Hoover-tipped collar attributed his victory to "Newfoundland's womanhood"-since this is the first election in which Newfoundland women have had the ballot. Some 30,000 maids and matrons, all of whom had to be over 25, voted for "dollars and cents...