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Soprano Dame Nellie Melba said she met Oscar Wilde in the streets of Paris in 1898, shabbily dressed, with a "hunted look in his eyes." Lord Carson, his old schoolmate who cross-examined Wilde at his first trial, is reported to have seen him lying "haggard" and "painted" in a Paris gutter. Pearson laughs such stories off. Oscar, he declares, never painted his face except to edify American audiences during his U.S. lecture tour (1882). As for being shabby, he was "invariably well-dressed, well-shaved, self-assured...
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...
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...
...moment, Hess stared at Hess. The man in the newsreel, young and strapping, screamed "Sieg Heil!" The real man, haggard and old, sank back into his seat. Psychiatrists watched him closely...
...April he climbed a 400-foot escarpment with an assaulting infantry battalion. At the top the attack faltered under a storm of artillery, mortar and rifle fire. But Doss stayed at the exposed summit for hours, lowered 75 wounded men down the rock walls to safety before descending himself, haggard, dirty, miraculously alive. For weeks, after that, he was in and ahead of the front lines. Twice he was wounded. Grenade fragments ripped his legs, knocked him down and out of action. But when other corpsmen tried to carry him back, he crawled off the litter, sent them to another...