Word: martyrdoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...always, cocked and primed to talk about his "martyrdom...
...platoon of newshawks and cameramen who met Mooney at the San Francisco jail found him, as always, cocked and primed to talk about his "martyrdom." He expected no redress from the California Court, he said, but had great hopes for a final victory before the U. S. Supreme Court. Twenty pounds heavier than when he left San Francisco, he was tanned, seemed fully alert despite his 52 years and nearly a generation behind bars. His "prison heart," a nervous cardio-vascular affliction, did not appear to bother him, but in the general excitement he could not keep back the tears...
Plenty of other candidates for popular martyrdom popped up to bid for Gentleman Farmer Chandler's potatoes. Declared Manhattan Jeweler Norman C. Norman, a plaintiff in the Supreme Court gold-clause cases: "I am particularly anxious to serve time in the penitentiary...
...civil rights, deprivation of nationality, impossibility of engaging in any commercial activity and complete social ostracism, the sentence to be read publicly." As Judge Görtz observes, the Nazi ax has its disadvantages "because the death penalty may establish a continued relationship between the condemned and the public"-martyrdom...