Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aftermath of Wall Street's Blue Monday skid. But last week Eddy had a companion-handsome, French-born Olivier Coquelin, 32. Coquelin is the manager of a Manhattan cafè society watering spot called Le Club, where Eddy, bedazzled by a "board of governors" that includes Noel Coward, Rex Harrison and the Duke of Bedford, was an eager member. Said the loyal Olivier: "I have come to see zat Eddee does not go to zee dogs...
...merry-faced Gurkhas, who seldom measure more than a few inches above the minimum 5 ft. required by the British army. They are renowned for their gentleness off the battlefield, but on it unflinchingly uphold their slogan: Kafar Hone Bhanda Morne Ramro, meaning, Better to die than live a coward. They believe that war is heaven-or at least the best way of getting there...
...Darling fat girl, anyone who has given so many people such pleasure and fun is doomed to go on doing it." Thus encouraged by Fellow Worldling Noel Coward, Café Society Mixmaster Elsa Maxwell, 78, rose from the Manhattan bed to which a heart attack confined her three months ago and began once again to share her doom with the readers of her syndicated, confidences. Though her ordeal had modified her physique-on doctor's orders she had already reduced from 200 to 165 lbs.-it had not mitigated her relentlessly chatty columnar style. Opening gambit in her first...
...other hand, probably the best pieces in the book are the accounts of Perelman's travels, especially a seven-part series entitled "Dr. Perelman, I Presume, or Small Bore in Africa." The first piece, "This Is the Forest Primeval?" presents the meeting of Perelman, a cringing coward, with the bluff, devil-may-care British explorer group...
...sanity make hilarious reading. He is at his best describing his own efforts to come to terms with the world around him, a world swarming with zany people and beyond rational control. And though he introduces many engaging and diverting personalities, his best creation is himself--the craven coward, the hesitant man of the world, the would-be lady killer, who really just wants to finish reading Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic...