Word: martydom
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Immediately a first tempter offers him case and luxury; a second, temporal power by resumption of the chancellorship; a third, temporal power by aiding the rebellious barons against the King; and a fourth, celestial glory through martydom. Thomas resists the first three, but his reaction to the fourth is not so clear, nor the application of the above solution so easy, for it is debatable whether he merely submits to death or seeks it, at the hands of the drunken knights sent by the King...
...Federal Reserve Board at the banking table were only a few of the more outstanding evidences of the accuracy and sincerity of the discussions. In consideration of the men in government and business who were invited to attend the conference, there is this to be said. Instead of polite martydom to more than one illy-considered and naive undergraduate question, they were genuinely interested in contact with the undergraduate experiment and willing to help the experiment in every way. Moreover, in many case, they exhibited a personal delight at the chance to discuss the problems over the same table with...
...join the Union. Logically, their case is air-tight. Practically, however, one cannot but feel that they are sacrificing themselves not on the altar of liberalism but on the altar of Mr. Flearst, the D. A. R., and similar organizations. Only time will tell whether it is useless martydom...
Then, balancing a limp-plumed bonnet, in stalks Beatrice Lillie to be jostled by a bus queue for five minutes of mute martydom, wherein the only betrayal of her cold, furious resentment is a sublime, rancid smirk, and at long last a fervent "Taxi!" Nine times in all she appears, and whether it is the channel swimming scene ("Oh, pul-lease!"), or her deceptively wistful "I'm World Weary," or the Paris in 1890 scene ("They call me La Flamme because I make men mad"), she is never allowed to leave the stage until her audience is too weak...
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