He doesn't seem to have met the author of Heart of Darkness, but he was passionately against King Leopold's Congolese fiefdom, writing a broadside, The Crime of the Congo (1909), as did Mark Twain, with whom he shares some characteristics.
Cajun musician Vic Sadot wrote a song about Ochs entitled "Broadside Balladeer".
A Maryland native, he had previously written a popular series of comic stories for the service paper Broadside while in the Navy during World War I.
You can see that the chimps, with their clever length of upper lip and their hesitant, scurrying intellectual gait, are destined to write broadsides, and sit down as pacifists outside embassies, and quietly dominate the thought of mankind.
"In the diaspora," Israel's founding father, David Ben-Gurionceonce wrote in a typical broadside, "Jews are human dust, whose particles try to cling to each other".
The written broadside, circulated by email, was backed by some of the country's most senior writers including the playwright, David Hare, the television writers Deborah Moggach and Amy Jenkins, and director, David Drury.
"Targets for renewable energy sources and energy efficiency would not be beneficial," Cirelli wrote in one broadside to Barroso in February 2013.
Emboldened by the flood of scandals since the bubble burst, Bogle has written his broadest broadside yet.
In 2006 he wrote Strength: Broadsides from Disability on the Arts, based largely on his past speeches.
In the early part of the 18th century, Jonathan Swift, who had written political broadsides in earnest, adapted the style for several jocular bagatelles.
