coward
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The two actresses make for a smashing comic duo in this production of the Noël Coward play about two women eager to rekindle a romance with the same French lothario.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
It's more unusual for a US actress to play the part, but Coward actually based the character on an American he'd met at a dinner party in 1921.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
News of a special dinner guest, superstar playwright Noël Coward, transforms Daisy into an Iron Chef: “Well, tonight he’s getting Coquilles Saint-Jacques and Gressingham Duck, and he better like it.”
From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025
At Memphis, Cedric Coward went 6-for-6 from three-point range and scored a game-high 27 points off the bench to lead the host Grizzlies over Indiana 128-103.
From Barron's • Oct. 26, 2025
“Hold up. Coward? That’s how he wrote me?”
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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