Word: cowardly
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...years later, Greer Garson was one of the most promising young British actresses of her generation. She shared a handsome flat with her handsome mother in brightest Mayfair. She swapped fancy conversational popcorn with Bernard Shaw, was friend, colleague and mental ping-pong partner of people like Noel Coward, Sylvia Thompson, Laurence Olivier, Margaret Webster. In two years, during which she had only two weeks' vacation, she worked in no fewer than eight plays. Nearly all of them were flops. But Miss Garson was never a flop. She had ability. She had presence. She had a ferocious and exacting...
...left the hospital, General Patton spoke again to the medical officer: "I meant what I said about getting that coward out of here...
...Fear changes. Untried soldiers were more afraid of "being a coward" (36%) than of being crippled and disfigured...
With flashbulbs exploding, Lady Louis Mountbatten and Ambassadors Winant and Biddle in a flag-draped box, and Noel Coward, Bea Lillie and mobs of servicemen packing the house, it was a gala opening. It was also a demonstrative one: time after time cascading applause stopped the show. Loudest thunder was for Composer Berlin, who followed a husky rendering of Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning with one husky chorus of White Christmas. When the audience still would not let him go, he gave them a new bit of alien corn called My British Buddy, which...
...Kronenscheldt) and who lives in Manhattan. Says he, "I am a poor but good Crowninshield." His father was a mural painter of independent means. As editor of the late, lamented Vanity Fair Crownie made it a lively canapé-service of contemporary taste, with succulent tidbits of Noel Coward, Colette, Dorothy Parker, Ring Lardner, Harold Nicolson, Edmund Wilson...