Word: cowardly
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...called him a coward . . . offered to demonstrate that the wrist under a slave bracelet may snap a real fist into his sagging jaw and teach him respect for a man even if he prefer to keep his face clean. . . . This is not publicity. He overstepped all bounds of decency and right thinking. I will go back to Chicago and give him what he deserves. Only one thing can prevent it-he may be feeble, or old, or too young. . . ." Once more the head was bent. "I am waiting," said Mr. Valentino...
Justice Horridge, before whom the damage suit was tried, said: "Captain Wright is justified in thinking that in calling him 'a liar, a coward and a fool' Viscount Gladstone employed the language of the pantry rather than that of the House of Lords...
...Gladstone, first Viscount Gladstone, son of the late Victorian Liberal Premier, at once denounced his father's abuser to the secretary of the Bath Club, of which both Captain and Viscount were members. Lord Gladstone wrote to the secretary: "Captain Wright is a foul fellow! A liar, a coward and a fool...
...tight-rope walker who displayed his talent in private life and rescued a beleaguered heroine. This particular walker walked a telegraph wire into a burning building to complete the rescue. Previously he had refused to perform a certain difficult stunt in the circus and was branded a coward. The circus scenes are fair, the climax exciting, and the whole picture dangerously close to average...
Joseph ("Fog Horn") Westwood (diminutive Laborite M. P., leaping up and pointing at Colonel Lane-Fox) : "The coward! The dirty, dastardly coward! My aged1 father has been locked out of his work at the mines, and this dastard says my father isn't going to defend my mother...