Word: gallantly
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...sees the string of pearls that Luigi has sent, his tortured anger in all its horror returns and, cursing the moment when they met, he cries for vengeance on the passionate Lothario. Too late, Luigi declares his sincerity and asks for Simonetta's hand in marriage. She loves the gallant, so what is there for the wretched zany to do but stand aside...
...Plon Plon (Prince Napoleon, second son of ex-King of Westphalia Jerome Bonaparte), so-called because that is supposed to represent the noise of a rifle, and the Prince was said to have funked crossing the Alma during the Crimean War in going to the relief of the gallant Bosquet. . . . once found his match in Esther Guimon...
...technical knockout. The public, too, exonerated Tunney, persuaded by his conduct throughout the fight that he was incapable of low action. From the moment Carpentier first sprang at him, with back arched, on cat-like toes, Tunney fought like a gentleman. And the public was grieved that so gallant a fighter as Carpentier should come under suspicion of "playing up" his injury to win applause and sympathy. For nine rounds, the handsome, blond ring-idol of Europe had assaulted a dangerous foe, taken hard battering. In the tenth round, he had grovelled horribly on the floor, all but unconscious, then...
...feverishly all day, overhauling their motors, reconditioning their planes-and purchasing new cold-weather outfits for their passage over the North Atlantic. Woolen underwear and fur-lined coats spell many gallons of gasoline. Everything unessential must be discarded, and even safety razors must disappear. Their fellow citizens will welcome gallant officers who are heavily bewhiskered...
Triumphant virtue thumps splendidly in the chaste breast of Johanna Oakley, his faithful hoopskirted light-of-love; the gallant thorax of Colonel Jeffrey of the Indian Army, confidant and sub-hero. Thirteen other characters, broadly "in period,' pad out the piece to bursting...