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...high point of a slapdash Technicolored farce that should try the patience of all but the most ardent Hope fans. The film is a cluttered catchall of mossy gags, pratfalls and comedy routines dating back to Mack Sennett and before. Hope is still the fumbling poltroon, this time a ham actor who masquerades as a gentleman's gentleman in England, then becomes a real valet masquerading in the Wild West as a British earl. He caricatures snobbery and braggadocio, unfailingly spills tea trays all over an English hostess, unwittingly courts death at the hands of a cowboy villain (Bruce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 4, 1950 | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...ghosts of Ruddigore had shouted: "Coward, poltroon, shaker, squeamer, blockhead, sluggard, dullard, dreamer, shirker, shuffler, crawler, creeper, sniffler, snuffler, waller, weeper, earthworm, maggot, tadpole, weevil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Ghost Story | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...Where George Washington ordered General Charles Lee to advance, found him retreating, called him a "damned poltroon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COOPERATIVES: Back to Capitalism | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...last week seemed about to give Asiatic history a new twist. It was as though President Roosevelt should have become a Mohammedan and prefaced his New Deal with some such words as: "Our American people seem to me a nation of jazz-loving gum-chewers, profligate instalment-plan buyers, poltroon capitulators to racketeers, gasoline-wasters and coffee-addicts." *See the ablest recent Far East volume, Can China Survive?, by New York Times correspondents Hallett Abend & Anthony J. Billingham (Ives Washburn, Inc. New York, $3). *Died 1908. Her Majesty has just been made the subject of a brilliant biography, The Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chiang Dares | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...case this did not squelch his critics who have called his policy that of a poltroon, the Prime Minister said that he is "quite content to be called a coward," if that is the name people give to his avoidance of a war between Britain and Italy. He added: "Though I wish to retire some day, I shall retire when I think fit. It is for me to decide, and for no one to dictate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jolly Good Fellow | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

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