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Word: cowards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage, an hilarious Zeppelin brightened with a Mazda smile. "How is my dear old mother tonight?" someone asks her. "Lousy," she replies. Fred Keating, a magician by trade, stuffs birds down his shirt front in a highly invisible manner while acting as master of the rakish ceremonies. Noel Coward, Peter Arno, John McGowan and most admirably Rube Goldberg are implicated in suitable capacities, as is the author of a song called, "I May be Wrong." Credit for the rest of the Almanac's sophisticated virtues should be laid to John Murray Anderson, its organizer and producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

HUNKY-Thames Williamson-Coward-McCann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peasant-Citizen | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...stick out. This picture is like The Big Parade in the way some of the battle scenes are handled, but except when mechanical explosions give it energy it is an entirely unreal lyric about a Southern girl who had two sweethearts, one of whom turned out to be a coward. He was drunk when the bugle blew, and when she told him to get out and join the ranks he belched in her pretty face. So she put on his tin hat and got in his place and won a battle for the regiment by shooting a German machine gunner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...Philadelphia, once met Charles B. Cochrane, famed London theatre man. Last week in London Manager Cochrane said: "I asked Capone if he were going to see a certain musical show. He replied that he never went to musical shows and that his favorite dramatists are George Bernard Shaw, Noel Coward and Shakespeare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...They tell more about their Spring flight in a just-published book, Vagabonding at Fifty-Coward McCann-, for the publication of which they lately returned to Greenwich Village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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