Word: coward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honorable members apparently do not desire the debate to proceed under the standing orders, I adjourn the House." Once more the mace was removed and once more the M. P.'s trooped out. As Mr. Baldwin walked out there were hisses and booes and cries of "coward...
...Marquise. An English youth named Noel Coward wrote The Vortex (London 1924, Manhattan 1925) and since then disciples have awaited another play as good. The Marquise is another not so good. It is about a lady who descended upon a French chateau to see her old lover and her child by him. Soon she found the child affianced to a neighbor's son, also her child. It is carefully explained that save for these two slips the lady has been strictly moral, and the purpose of the play is to decide which of these two lovers she shall marry...
...with a whirling deluge of internal experience flooding in the general direction of a narrative. Less turbulent than Poet Joyce, Poet Aiken produces a flood less bewildering than Ulysses but quite as impressive. The narrative of Blue Voyage is simply that William Demarest, young U. S. writer and moral coward, sails second class for England to see Cynthia Battiloro, whom he worships but thinks he loves. He is tempted on shipboard by Mrs. Faubion, a fellow-passenger in the second class, but resists her frankly sensual charms; when lo! stealing a walk on the first class promenade, he encounters Cynthia...
Midnight noises awakened William E. Chapman, U. S. Consul at Puerto Mexico, in the State of Vera Cruz. Soon Consul Chapman, no coward, was tiptoeing downstairs with a dim lamp as his only guide...
...Columbia is not on the market," said Mr. Levine when Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, rich U. S. slacker now living in Germany, offered to buy the monoplane. Mr. Bergdoll let it be known that he desires to fly to the U. S. to show that he is no coward, that conscientious objection was his only reason for refusing to fight in the World...