Word: gallantly
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Humour is the note of the play, but humor does not exclude the gallant swagger of romance, and when the cook sallies out to fight the dragon, and . . . the right note is struck by a master hand; . . . the conversion of the Dragon to vegetarianism is a stroke of genius. Dickens at his best never contrived a better ending than Lady Gregory, or one more in keeping with the tone of the right kind of fairy story...
...students attended the meeting, while nearly 300 of the ex-service men signed cards signifying their desire to join the Shannon Post. President Lowell opened the meeting by saying that it was peculiarly appropriate that the Post should be named after Colonel Shannon, who was "one of the most gallant men we have come in contact with." He then introduced Professor W. B. Munro...
...death comes as a great blow not only to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which must bear the brunt of it, but to educational institutions everywhere. Not yet fifty, he literally gave his life in the cause for which during the last eleven years, he had made such a gallant and successful fight. The great buildings on the Cambridge bank of the Charles are his monument, the rank of Tech as the greatest scientific school in the country, his creation...