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Word: cowards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after resigning from the Hearstian International News Service "on principle," Editor Pew found a resounding forum for his views. Among his antipathies is Gossip Columnist Walter Winchell, who tried to make capital of the Philadelphia jailing and was ringingly denounced by Editor Pew as: "A Broadway scavenger ... a physical coward ... a journalistic gangster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Pew Out | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...London suburb in 1889, of poor but respectable parents, he was early made to feel the young hopeful. He won a scholarship to a public school (Christ's Hospital) where he learned to be ashamed of his background. He sums up his youthful self as "part snob, part coward, part sentimentalist ... an unattractive personality." But he went up to Oxford with a reputation as a bright lad. His chances for a first-class degree went glimmering when, vacationing in Paris, he fell in love with a French cocotte. He spent two vacations with her, let her lure him into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Introspect | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...this remark go unanswered, the judge stood up, leaned across the bench and shouted at M. Maurras: "M. Blum is in a difficult position. If he is for war, you say he deserves the kitchen knife. If he is against war, he will be accused of being a coward in giving way before your threats." Then the judge perfunctorily fined Editor Maurras $13, sentenced him to eight more months in jail. The hatred and fear roused in French Tories by the prospect of Socialist Leon Blum's Government last week served thrifty Paris socialites as an excuse to cancel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Third Class Power? | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...Scoundrel" is subpoenaed for another appearance in Boston. Noel Coward breaks his brittle cracks on the skulls of his foils in the approved Cowardly manner, for the major part of the picture. Then, most touchingly, he demonstrates that even merry wags are subject to the moral law, and the need for affection, to lay their lonesome ghosts. This hybrid of persiflage and metaphysics shares the program with a melodious dainty called 'Invitation to a Dance". The struggles of Carl Maria Von Weber to rise in the musical world are presented somewhat drably, but the song is an ample lure, special...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/19/1936 | See Source »

THERE IS MY HEART-Peter Neagoe- Coward-McCann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rumanian | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

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