Word: martyrize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only tried to conceal the amount of the contribution but had converted part of the money to his personal use-did not report it because he could not account for its spending. Next day the Bishop took a greater interest in proceedings. His own attorney pictured him a martyr who had spent every cent he could make and scrape together to defeat Smith and Rum, who could easily have reported spending the whole $65,300 but had not done so because it would have been deceptive to report $48,000 spent in Virginia by a local organization. When Attorney McNeill...
...diffidence or constraining consciousness of which I have spoken. More vigorous and independent are the book reviews; and more revealing, as one would expect, of personal adventure and direct relationship are the poems. The reviewer enjoyed the irony and careful flatness of statement of Mr. Boyle's "Stephen Martyr," and enjoyed still more the quite exquisitely phrased "Night Song" of Mr. Wade. Mr. Laughlin's two poems likewise deserve especial mention; they show a sensitive ear and nice perceptions. In the company of one of Ezra Pound's "Cautos," as they are here, they have the appearance of two demure...
...police chased O'Duffy across a plowed field, lost him to a crowd finally nabbed him but not before he had shouted martyr-wise to his followers: "I am still wearing a blue shirt and our cause will go on. Be calm, and we shall win although I am in prison." Then he was hustled off to jail, on a charge of wearing a blue shirt...
...when the Party's first super-film, Horst Wessel "with music by Dr. Ernst Hanfstaengl" was abruptly withdrawn on the day of its scheduled premiere. Nazi critics present at previews had hailed it as "the German screen's greatest masterpiece," and "a glorious tribute to our Nazi Martyr Horst Wessel." Last week Dr. Hanfstaengl emerged triumphant when the Horst Wessel film, renamed Hans Westmar, One of Many and extensively retaken, but still "with music by Dr. Ernst Hanfstaengl" was released before a Berlin audience which included former Crown Prince Wilhelm...
...Germany knows him as "the Nazi Martyr." He wrote the words of the Nazi anthem, now called "The Horst Wessel Song." But in life Horst Wessel was merely "one of many" original brownshirts. Because Horst Wessel wrote a song and happened to be one of the Browns killed by the Reds he has grown great in Death. But his life scarcely makes good enough cinema material to endow with the mighty name HORST WESSEL. As released last week Hans Westmar, One of Many goes lighter on the Jews, heavier on the Communists than did Horst Wessel. It is definitely militaristic...