Word: bludgeon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Target for the Week. In a week of Red tantrums after the verdict, Judge Medina became the target for every type of Communist attack and abuse. Paul Robeson vowed that he would get Medina impeached. The Soviet newspaper Pravda carried a cartoon of Uncle Sam swinging a bludgeon labeled "Medina...
...convict seiezed, N. H., with nearly $4,000 in small bills confessed last night to the three-day-old bludgeon slaying of a former employer in Cambridge, Mass., and agreed to return to Massachusetts...
...they were. Justice was also debonair and deft, so that even Party-Liner Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast, writing in the Communist Daily Worker, acknowledged Medina's "old world charm," and recognized that "like many other good performers, he knows the understress is of more value than the bludgeon ... It is quite apparent, even through the charm, that he does not like the Communists, who go in not only for bickering, but for much more overt forms of opposition...
...York Sun Columnist George E. Sokolsky cited bludgeon-wielding Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler as "one Of the most competent reporters in American journalism." Hearst's New York Journal-American ran a half-page promotion ad to be sure that no reader missed the compliment...
...central theme in much of Huxley's writing, and it spills all over his latest novel. But where Brave New World was a neat stiletto jab into the tender hide of the reforming perfectionists, Ape and Essence, a poorer novel, is a rather crude bludgeon indiscriminately aimed at all men's thick skulls...