Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rapidly that she finally had to hire two artists to help her turn out some 800-odd designs this year. That's still not enough, because her customers often insist on buying ties by the dozen. Among her strangely mixed clientele: William Randolph Hearst Sr., Frank Sinatra, Noel Coward, David Dubinsky and Harry Truman, who once failed at selling ties himself...
Tracked Down. The Army uncovered more than 2,400,000 psychoneurotics (1,875,000 rejected in the draft, 600,000 discharged after induction). Four-fifths of those discharged had cracked up under training-camp discipline before they saw any fighting. General Cooke found many a plain & fancy coward: at Massachusetts' Camp Edwards, where 2,800 reluctant soldiers facing shipment to battlefronts were imprisoned in a stockade, he discovered that, to avoid going, men threw away their false teeth, hid in coal bins, jumped off harbor boats, paid up to $1,000 to civilian doctors to tell them...
Brief Encounter. At the Tremont. A fine motion picture, made by Noel Coward from his own one-act play, "Still Life." It deals with the love tragedy of two middle-class English citizens who meet in a railroad station and develop their "star-cross'd" relationship from there. Coward employs the technique of the dream, combined with fine photography, to achieve remarkable success...
Brief Encounter. Skillful British-made tearjerker, from a Noel Coward playlet (TIME, Sept...
...matinee idols is not the newest of sports, and Present Laughter needs much fresher turns & twists than it ever gets. The best scenes are too much alike, the others never get going. Almost everyone is ostentatiously rude, but almost no one is witty. It's partly, perhaps, because Coward is such an old hand at this kind of thing that he makes it seem...