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This Was a Man. Precocious Noel Coward, incessant tosser-off of suavely sexual plays, tossed this one off a bit too carelessly. Though the Lord Chamberlain suppressed the piece in London, Broadway showed signs last week of yawning at one more husband world-wearily indifferent to his cuckoldom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 6, 1926 | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...always meant to the public an organization which was striving to promote the lower classes at the expenses of the middle and upper class. Such perverted offspring of the American Federation as was the I. W. W., strengthened this brief. Labor, to the world, meant a force moving steadily coward toward communism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OLD GRAY MARE | 10/16/1926 | See Source »

...That phrase was meant to convey an insinuation. I should have liked to rebel and to crack the skull of this upstart who was accusing me of laziness while my limbs were giving beneath the weight of the stones-I wanted to shout out in his face: 'You coward, you coward!' And then? The man who pays you is always in the right. Saturday evening came. I said to the padrone I intended to leave and therefore wished to be paid. He went into his office. I remained in the lobby. Presently he came out. With ill-disguised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bricklayer's Autograph | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...blame Subscriber Coward and his friend for having a disagreement while playing the new game, "Babbitt" ? The definition of a Babbitt published in TIME, July 26, [MISCELLANY, p. 29] was most vague. Why not be specific, if you set yourselves up as authorities ? ... Is it part of the game to point at a specimen, crying out its name, as in "Beaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 16, 1926 | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...game. The first score I claimed was for a redheaded, spatted chap with a muddled face, a monocle and a fancy hat band. I forgot a cane too. My opponent refused to allow the score. We agreed to let you decide the bet-"Was he a Babbitt?" JOHN COWARD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 9, 1926 | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

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