Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since haggard, bitter Earl Browder had been dethroned as U.S. Communist boss last July, for deviation from the party line, he has been the Party's No. i anathema. A withering pamphlet entitled "The Path of a Renegade" relegated him to the "gutter of history," denounced him as a lackey of Big Business. Cried the pamphlet: "Browder fostered . . . the fiction that there exists somewhere, some international Communist tribunal that determines policy for our Party, that our Party is not a fully independent Party of the American working class." In his weekly typewritten "Distributors Guide-A Service for Policy...
...handsome U.S. wife and son Paul, 6, in a Greenwich Village apartment. But bombs still go off in his head, and he has not stopped fighting Franco. His latest attack: a book of pen & ink souvenirs of Franco's Black Spain (Reynal & Hitchcock; $3.50). As calm and bitter as a cup of etching acid, the drawings are sure to cut deep into democratic consciences...
Ehrenburg was the reporter. Haggard and looking fully his 55 years, not quite right in his shiny worsted, he was rather more bitter than serious--hitting at "the reactionary bourgeois press" (among other things) with tongue in cheek...
...washed red hillsides are green again. Young willow leaves festoon the roads winding through the rice paddies. But the springtime beauty of this central Chinese province, one of the nation's "rice bowls," ends with the landscape. A portrait painter in Hunan would find an ugly subject-the bitter, bony face of famine...
Said a free but bitter Dr. Shugar: "I definitely wasn't impressed with [the Government's] demeanor either...