Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring. In Wichita, 15-year-old Dalton Fanning proved to his sweetheart that he was no coward, by shooting his right...
PILGRIM'S INN (346 pp.) - Elizabeth Goudge-Coward-McConn...
...Tribune and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Hiram Haydn, the proud father, who edits the Phi Beta Kappa quarterly, The American Scholar, is going to throw an "autograph-party" for his chick in his home town (Cleveland) and will speak in its defense on a radio program named Books on Trial. Coward-McCann's bird has already been taken under the hot wing of the Literary Guild, thus assuring Britain's Old Mother Goudge (who wrote the best-selling Green Dolphin Street) a minimum first printing of 615,000 copies...
...toured the state's back parishes, sweating geniality, whomping out Dogpatch oratory, and invoking the magic name of brother Huey (whom he had called a "big-bellied coward" in 1931), the voters found him irresistible. In last week's run-off election, Louisiana gave him the greatest vote ever polled by one candidate-with 44 of 1,878 precincts still to be counted, his total was 422,766. Sam Houston ("Sad Sam") Jones, the "good government" candidate who had beaten Earl for the governorship in 1940 and broken the back of the old Huey Long machine, got only...
What Playwright Coward misses most in the current version is Actor Coward. The Coward-Lawrence stage teamwork had constituted a talent in itself. This time Actress Lawrence's agility only emphasizes British Actor Graham Payn's lack...