Word: martyrdom
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Penalty for conviction on this rare charge is one to twelve months in jail, $100 to $1,000 fine. In Los Angeles, Dr. Townsend, not averse to publicity-making martyrdom, announced that he would go to jail before paying a fine. In Washington, legal authorities announced that he would probably have no choice, since a jail sentence would almost certainly accompany his conviction...
...natural that Senator Long's feelings should be wounded at the imputation that she might console herself so soon after the martyrdom of her husband. It was no less natural for the Hearst Press to report such a rumor about the liquid-eyed lady from Louisiana. For years her dowdy colleague, Hattie Caraway of Arkansas, has sat alone and relatively neglected in the Senate. Now Senators leaving the floor frequently pause to pass the time of day with Mrs. Long. Senators...
...Orleans. He it is who witnesses Joan's first military miracle on the banks of the Loire, when the wind shifts so that the French may attack the English by surprise, thus starting the invaders out of the Kingdom and Joan on her way to the fires of martyrdom. As for peerless Actress Cornell, spectators found her full of the youthful fire that danced around her Juliet, approved the added touch of honest rusticity which brought the full flush of credibility to her Joan...
...Harding is not nearly so heroic as usually. Perhaps there is too much martyrdom in her characterization of Mrs. Talbot. But it is difficult to be ungenerously harsh on a really good, tear-jerking performance. Margaret Lindsay does so well as a cold, hard, feeling less woman that we are inclined to forgive her unfelicitous roles of the past. Thus "The Lady Consents" is an admirably cast melodrama of matrimony which you mustn't miss...
...love in an archeological camp, with a vampish wife setting an old man, a boy and her surly husband on their respective ears. JOURNEY INTO FREEDOM-Klaus Mann -Knopf ($2.50). Story of a German girl who leaves her lover and the safety of exile to go back to martyrdom in Nazi-land; by Thomas Mann's actor-editor-author son. Non-Fiction...