Word: martyrized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood last year Director Wilcox made an appalling discovery-U. S. cinemaddicts had forgotten that Cinemactress Neagle was ever a chorus girl in Manhattan, thought of her as a royal senescent or a primly patriotic martyr. Wilcox determined to correct this misconception...
...portal between Central and Western Europe; six miles east is Imperial Trèves (Trier to the Germans), from which the Romans ruled their Western Empire. Since Roman days no war in western Europe has passed Luxembourg by, and each war has given the country a new hero or martyr...
...first four stories are ancient history; 1) a martyred pathfinder, before 7000 B.C. prototype of Osiris, of Jesus, of the Artist; 2) a dim-witted burglar vivisected by Alexandrian scientists (Result: "We have now proved . . . that the arteries circulate air to the body from the lungs. ... It makes a man proud to be a doctor"); 3) Spartacus and his terrific slave revolt, disappointingly told; 4) the Emperor Tiberius, "a martyr to man's habit of tyrannizing over his fellowman." The four with the U. S. as their setting are studies respectively of cowardice, burnt-out genius, sexual fever...