Word: cowardly
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...Corp., British-controlled, stopped work on a new branch office building. But last week the National City Bank of New York, its one Shanghai branch overflowing with customers, was preparing to open another in the 14-story Cathay Mansions Building. At the Shanghai Club's enormous bar (Noel Coward, squinting down it, once said it showed the curvature of the earth) hard-drinking Shanghailanders tell each other that "This is an American year...
...death (The Roaring Twenties). Sometimes he survives (Here Comes the Navy). In either case his reward has usually been the love of a pure, high minded girl. As Jerry Plunkett, a Brooklyn braggart, James Cagney is not only a disgrace to his semisavage comrades, but he turns coward under fire. Reclaimed by a well-placed shot and the ministrations of Father Duffy (Pat O'Brien), Jerry dies in battle. But this time valor is its only reward. There is not a girl in The Fighting 69th, luscious Priscilla Lane having been withdrawn at zero hour from the stag cast...
EXPERIMENT-Helen Hull-Coward, McCann...
...slave revolt, disappointingly told; 4) the Emperor Tiberius, "a martyr to man's habit of tyrannizing over his fellowman." The four with the U. S. as their setting are studies respectively of cowardice, burnt-out genius, sexual fever as a product of Mississippi Valley boredom, acute alcoholism. The Coward, well-worn in plot and people, is psychologically good & scary; The Defective is rather sketched than brought off. The Bad Girl describes provincial ennui and sexual despair with a good deal of intensity. The Drunkard, the best thing in the book, is a scalding and ghastly story of speak-easy...
...STEP ASIDE-Noel Coward-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Actors, writers, wistful perverts, celebrity-hounds, the occupants of cheap rooming houses, are the creatures of Noel Coward's seven stories. In detail, at times, almost indecently sharp-eyed and entertaining, as wholes they are poor in ratio to their seriousness, good in ratio to their snottiness. Best: misadventures of a gentle English celebrity who, lassoed into a Long Island week end of guaranteed peace & quiet, finds himself the agonized vortex of a Walpurgisnacht of corrupt artists, moneymen, scrimmaging Lesbians, carnivorous wives and dowagers. Their favorite adjective: "genuine...