Word: cowardly
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...ghosts of Ruddigore had shouted: "Coward, poltroon, shaker, squeamer, blockhead, sluggard, dullard, dreamer, shirker, shuffler, crawler, creeper, sniffler, snuffler, waller, weeper, earthworm, maggot, tadpole, weevil...
...Coventry last week, Gracie swaggered onstage before 1,000 General Electric employees, promptly pitched into a nostalgic Noel Coward medley and an Afrikaans song in "Lancashire French." Then she reverted to her old rough & tumble with a comic song called He Forgot to Come Back, wherein she quakingly called for "Hennerry." Only her celebrated cartwheels had been dropped from the prewar formula...
Many a contemptuous observer of the conquered Germans must have had moments when he asked himself such questions. Lieut. Cooper had reached the age of 37 without disproving his fear that he was a coward. "He had hoped finally it would be in this war, the first war in which the psychiatrists had made it 'all right' to be afraid, so long as you were brave," that he would rebuild his self-respect. "He had rushed out on Dec. 8, 1941, to seek another chance...
...critical perceptions are sometimes bemusing: she once described Bob Hope as "our American Noel Coward." "For more than 2,000 years," she once intoned reverently, "Jews and Christians all over the world have tried to follow in the footsteps of our Saviour...
...price (a well-guarded secret) looked adequate to Coward. The series of 13 transcriptions, each a half-hour in length, features nothing but Noel. Writing, song selection, announcing, and some of the singing are all his. Orchestrations and the trickier songs are left to hand-picked members of the Coward stage companies. The show is a straight, undeviating parade of old Coward scores, broken only by the composer's comments ("Listeners. This is a program of my own music. Songs and lyrics that I have composed over the past 25 years. I do hope that you will enjoy them...