Word: martyrized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never meant to be a martyr. He was a wandering iron molder, an obscure left-wing Socialist, an unknown writer for a little, radical West Coast paper. Few Americans had ever heard of Tom Mooney until he went to prison for San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day bombing, and, if his guilt had been certain, few Americans would ever have heard of him again...
...great man-for a day. But he was old from years in prison, sick with ulcers and jaundice. He had not worn his martyrdom well; he broke with modest Warren K. Billings, who was convicted with him and who somehow was never regarded as a martyr; he was estranged from his wife; labor people found him selfish and conceited...
...Hill's first hearing, last October, Attorney John J. O'Connor appeared with him, said in the injured tone of a martyr: "I am here to plead Congressman Fish not guilty." Said Congressman Fish himself: "George Hill is 100% O.K., and I'll back George Hill to the limit on anything...
Johnson writes: "In the whole Roosevelt record there is not a single great musician, painter, sculptor, or other artist, and not a single madman. No Roosevelt ever died as a martyr to some great cause, and none was ever shot in a quarrel over a trollop. Up to the eighth generation there is no conspicuous instance in which a Roosevelt ever refused to do his duty, and none in which one ever did much more than his duty. For 250 years the family record was remarkably clear of both scandal and glory." Suddenly out of the line appeared...
...Flynn had been reaching all week for a martyr's crown to put on the head of America First. At the moment Mr. Flynn was able to make his sweeping declamation because Mutual Broadcasting System, which recorded the entire rally, had time free to rebroadcast only Senator Burton K. Wheeler's half-hour...