Word: martyrdom
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Germany and Italy both, were moulded in the fires of revolution. But while Garibaldi defended the Janiculum and Manin led Venice to starving martyrdom, Germany talked and blustered and Bismarck had his way. Perhaps in no other gathering in the history of the world would the Vagabond have been so at home as at the National Parliament which met at Frankfort to create a united Germany, and which dispersed in the face of armed fact. There he could have satisfied his lust for unlimited declamation. Cheated of his heritage by a trick of Fate, he can at least assuage...
...pardon that would absolve him of blame for an act to which only perjured witnesses can testify. He and his sympathizers have, however, so stressed the political aspects of the situation that no governor dares grant this pardon. If Mooney really considers his freedom more important than a Socialist martyrdom he must accept a parole rather than continue his political campaign...
...exclusion of St. Gandhi. The Bombay government retaliated by ordering the arrest of any merchant closing his place of business. At Ahmedabad an Indian surgeon was fined 1,000 rupees for refusing for the third time to remove the Gandhi tricolor from his dispensary. Unimpressed by the much publicized martyrdom of Krishna Kant (TIME, Jan. 25). a British magistrate ordered a 14-year-old boy flogged for picketing a British bank...
...situations to be faced are a daughter's going off and living with an architect for two years before he marries her; and her brother's unhappy marriage with a poisonous Bohemian. The parents, particularly the mother, accept their woe with a good deal of self-conscious martyrdom. Spectators, aware that Playwright van Druten has done a faithful job of domestic reporting, leave After All with a tendency to remark: "What of it?" Margaret Perry, a pretty girl with eyes that turn up at the corners, easily turns in the best performance and if the actors had something...
Across the street from the Temple of Light is the Sheridan Shore Yacht Club, a convivial organization which occupies the basement of Architect Benjamin Howard Marshall's gay pink house. So quietly, bothering no one, does Baha'i meet, that last week's celebration of the Bab's martyrdom (with readings and prayers led by Mrs. Corrine True of Wilmette) went quite unnoticed by the yachtsmen...