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Word: cowardly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonight at 8:30 (by Noel Coward; produced by Homer Curran, Russell Lewis & Howard Young) ran to three evenings of three playlets each when Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence were co-starred in them in 1936. This time Tonight at 8:30 offers one session and one star the less: three playlets and Noel Coward have dropped out of the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: O!d Playlets in Manhattan | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...Hollywood, Visitor Bea Lillie made an illuminating reply to Joan Crawford, who invited her around to meet Visitor Noel Coward. "Thanks," refused Actress Lillie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hearth & Home | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Earl himself was not so much a root as a full-grown shoot. He had split away from Huey in 1931, calling his brother "a big-bellied coward." Earl was a gravel-voiced, bitin', scratchin' man. He once nearly bit an antagonist's finger off. On another occasion, he sank his teeth so deep in the neck of a state representative that the legislator took a shot of lockjaw serum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Bitin' Man | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...death. Crump paid, said he-one cent postage due on the letter. He took a brown grip to a designated spot and left it there for 40 minutes, but nobody came for it. So Crump cleared his throat and read to reporters the contents of the grip: "To the coward perpetrating this dastardly thing: anyone could take a white mouse with baby teeth and run you in the Mississippi River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Statecraft | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...were a couple of refugees from Manhattan. New York's Swing Street (52nd) and Greenwich Village were in the doldrums: many of the honky-tonk joints there were billing shows like Burlesquer Lois De Fee's "Rumba A-peel." Muggsy Spanier, who looks like a waterfront Noel Coward, and Trombonist Miff Mole, who looks like a middle-aged dentist, were playing music that had a lot more drive to it than it had had at Nick's in the Village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Those Old Faces | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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