Word: martyrdom
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...door of General von Bissing by Allied propaganda- Miss Edith Cayell. To erase that stigma from his family name was the futile hope and almost fanatical desire of the late Baron Walter von Bissing. The death of Miss Cavell has, of course, begun to seem less of a martyrdom to impartial neutrals as the facts have come to light...
...party, brought pressure to bear on employers to take back the strikers on the old scale of pay. Without such intervention, a universal lockout might easily have succeeded the general strike, an eventuality appalling in the possibilities presented for violence. By his move, the Premier prevented a martyrdom of labor which would have done much to secure it the sympathy lost upon instigating the enormous walkout...
...Gentlemen of the Jury, do your duty. I ask for no clemency for Dumini. I will not remind you to what martyrdom, to what vile defamation, to what wicked provocations we Fascist! were continuously subjected for months after Matteotti's disappearance. I will not remind you of the suffering of our mothers and our children when we blackshirts daily left our houses without knowing whether we would return. I .will not mention the tears of the mothers, the relatives of the martyrs to our cause, when at the moment they thought their sacrifices might have been made in vain...
...account of the Italian premiere of The Martyrdom of San, Sebastian, an opera by Gabriele d'Annunzio with a score by Debussy see ITALY...
...what opera house was d'Annunzio's The Martyrdom of San Sebastian given its Italian premiere...