Word: cowardly
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GREEN DOLPHIN STREET-Elizabeth Goudge-Coward-McCann...
...Government] men or mice. . . . Have we the guts to admit that our policy was dictated by political cowardice? . . . It is not a pretty challenge. Yet, in the language of the Government, it is proper and just. It is a poor defense for cowardice to scream 'Coward...
...later years, correspondents were often surprised to find that Woollcott had never outgrown his love for renaming both his friends and himself. "Lamb of God," he would begin a letter to Noel Coward. Poet Archibald Macleish he addressed as "Ambrose-Son-of-Heaven." Sometimes he signed himself "Pumblechook...
...Letters reflect the brimming Woollcott emotions. "I just cried quietly," he wrote to Noel Coward after seeing the Lamb of God's movie, In Which We Serve. "Courage is the only thing that makes me cry." After previewing Goodbye, Mr. Chips, he burst into "a great, astonishing sob" and fell down the projection-room stairs. "One of the characters in Of Mice and Men," he wrote to Harpo Marx, "is an amiable and gigantic idiot. . . . I tried to get [Heywood] Broun to take this part and he was very hurt." "Just a big dreamer," said Harpo of Woollcott, "with...
When the police finally nabbed them, Agata shielded Arturo with her own body to give him time to pull a gun. Instead, Arturo surrendered. Agata spat, "You coward!" and slapped...