Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston was shaken by some old phrases from Playwright Noel Coward. The censor banned two quaint lines from his 15-year-old Design For Living (which played Boston uncensored in the early '305). One referred to a "wanton abode," the other to an "unpremeditated roll...
Lord George Germain. Disgraced as a British soldier for refusing to lead his forces into action against the French, he was court-martialed, branded as a coward, cut in society, but rose to colonial secretary as "the most implacable enemy of the American colonists," demanded unconditional surrender, and excelled at jeering at the cowardice of Americans...
...civilization, it became the staunch advocate of matrimony. The Church even tried to keep Christian marriages from going on the rocks by offering its members advice more detailed than anything Dorothy Dix ever attempted. Saint Chrysostom (347-407) wrote that no wife should say to her husband: " 'Unmanly coward and lazy sluggard, look at that man . . . His wife wears jewels and goes out with a pair of milk-white mules. She is attended by a troop of slaves, but you have cowered down and live to no purpose.' But if a wife does so speak, her husband shall...
Though Maggie was born in Karachi, India, she was brought up in lower-middle-class South London. At Italia Conti's dramatic school for children, where Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence studied, Maggie got her start as a fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream...
Died. Erskine Gwynne, 49, dilettante Paris publisher of the expatriate era; after long illness; in Manhattan. A great-nephew of the late Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, he brought out the Paris Boulevardier in 1927, attracted to the magazine such contributors as Michael Arlen, Noel Coward, Ernest Hemingway...