Word: unkinder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Boston's sportwriters were eating crow for all the unkind things they had said about Marse Joe. The Sox were battling it out for the American League lead, neck & neck with the Philadelphia A's, the Yankees and the Indians...
...revelation to most people, and a survey as methodical as this picture cannot hope to contain thrills and excitement. Instead it works up an almost morbid eagerness to find out what new civilized horror is coming next. Sympathetic characters turn out to have subconscious prejudices, and each unkind word strikes a new blow at the hero. As usual there is a love story in the middle, and very soon even it becomes entangled with anti-semitism...
...very unkind; and the more so since it isn't true. In the story of my "ubiquitous wonder boy, Lanny Budd" I have been putting a bit more icing on the cake than I used to, but if you bite underneath you will find that it is exactly the same cake that I have been baking for nearly a half-century. Its ingredients are the abolition of parasitism and exploitation of man by man, and their consequences of poverty and war. Some day you will eat that cake and like...
...North Bay, Ont., two Canadian Communists clambered aboard a train on which Mike Moskal, 22, a Ukrainian D.P., was riding to a new job in a northern Ontario gold mine. They told him some very unkind things about Canada, handed him propaganda leaflets, tried to talk him into giving up, going back to Russia. The same thing happened, on the same trip, to Joe Trhlen, John Sanajko, Myroslaw Blauk, 50-odd other D.P.s. Said Mike Moskal: "Was no good. Didn't like...
...Nobody kicks around in this country without acquiring a reputation, good or bad. ... I may be a little unkind in what I have to say. . . . Brewster has been described to me as clever, resourceful, a terrific public speaker . . . one of the greatest trick-shot artists in Washington...