Word: martyrizing
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...over 30 years Eduardo Barriobero was a Clarence Darrow of Spain. Brilliant, provocative, radical, he pleaded many a completely hopeless case and was never happier than when he had a political martyr to defend. Violently anticlerical and stanchly antimonarchist, he could have stepped right out of a Blasco Ibañez novel. He was such an individualist that no pat modern political name-calling would fit him, no government could have suited him. More a syndicalist than anything else, he belonged to the fast dwindling group of Spanish Federalists...
Nicole was an egoistic, adventurous, impressionable, plain-looking, book-loving French girl. Her motto, borrowed from a religious martyr, was Resist. "Resisting" many a Frenchman, Nicole at 18 went to Dublin to teach French in a language school. When she met Michael Brandon, handsome journalist, and budding diplomat, her resistance collapsed-against the universal warning of her friends, who called him arrogant, priggish, sadistic and a lot besides...
...Devil. The Cure read people's minds in the confessional, performed small miracles such as causing grain to multiply during famine, large ones such as curing illness. His medical miracles M. Vianney modestly attributed to another saint, with whom he said he held periodic converse: a First-Century martyr named St. Philomena...
...this seemed a good joke until the city fathers of Tongres decided to punish zealous M. Grammens for spoiling the markings on their municipal buildings. Sentenced to a month's imprisonment. Painter Grammens became overnight a Flemish martyr. The embarrassed Government released him after only two weeks in jail...
...late Funnywriter Ring. In Manhattan, portly Leftpundit Heywood Broun announced that Ring Lardner was the only genius he ever met, rejoiced that the wounding of Son James, who writes, may force him to return to the U. S., thus providing the cause of Leftist Spain with another martyr...