Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whom the medal had been cast was no happy man. Pain twitched his broken leg. Enemies were reviling him as, "That Coward Nobile! The first airship captain who was first to leave his ship!" (TIME, July...
DIVERSEY-MacKinlay Kantor-Coward-McCann...
...drabness of bonds nor the toil of butter-and-eggs. But some of them find a good deal of both in the smart profession, and become good publishers. Two men who have survived enough of the toil to start their own concern (with the publication of Diversey), are Thomas Coward and James McCann. The former, nine years out of Yale College, has worked with The Yale University Press and Bobbs-Merrill Co., was National Squash champion in 1922. The latter, up-from-office-boy at Doubleday Page and Co., was head of Hearst's International Library...
...long, prepared laudation of the Hoover career and character. He was asked if he felt, as a Democrat, that he could not stand for Nominee Smith. "I won't stand for him! That's worse!" cried Bolter Owen. "I am an American citizen and not a coward. I'll be damned if I'll stand for the Tammanyizing of the Government of the United States!" Nominee Smith took the news calmly. Bolter Owen used to have, and might again have, a large following. "Naturally, I am sorry," said Nominee Smith. ... "... My greatest regret comes from...
...house and was arrested again. His employer dismissed him for engaging in politics but he said: "If I can help end the domination of this machine.and reduce taxes in Jersey City so that I can sell real estate, I will be satisfied." He called Mayor Hague "grafter" and "political coward." Mayor Hague took no action. Then Mr. Burkitt lost his voice. "I guess I'll have to rest for a spell," he whispered, "but . . . it's not the eggs and vegetables...