Word: martyrizing
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...First Martyr...
...Schumacher," cried the Chancellor, "is the first martyr of the Third Reich. . . . We are confident that his death has not been in vain and that out of it will come what we long for. The murderers of this German soldier are not identified with the millions of our racial brethren across the border. If these, our brethren, could freely raise their voices they would solemnly disavow the murderers and the principles responsible for this bloody crime...
...Vriendt's frailties. Knowing the perilous political situation in Jerusalem and fearing the consequences of what would look like a political murder, Irmin tried to get De Vriendt to leave town. On the eve of his departure he was shot. Immediately riots popped. The Agudists made a martyr of him; the Zionists and the Arabs each accused the other of his murder. Irmin began a relentless search for the killer. Meanwhile De Vriendt's followers had learned the shocking truth about him. Soon he was deliberately forgotten by nearly everybody. But Irmin remembered him so well that when...
...refused to obey but in a burst of religious fervor toppled over Jupiter's altar, smashed the god's statue. For his deed his right foot was chopped off before he was executed. In the course of time he came to be venerated as St. Victor the Martyr by the Roman Catholic Church. Years later his foot, now a relic holy to many a French Catholic, was acquired by the Paris church of St. Nicolas du Chardonnet on the Left Bank. Last week St. Nicolas du Chardonnet mournfully announced that some prowling malefactor had stolen St. Victor...
...development which has raised gooseflesh on the sensitive epidermis of these moguls is the news that the government will subpoena forty bank presidents so that they may shed some verbal illumination on their financial practices. An added horror was lent to the announcement, when the financiers beheld their fellow martyr, Mr. Harvey L. Carke, most unwillingly damning himself by his own testimony, and when they shudderingly recollected the amazing confessions dragged from Mr. Wiggin and Mr. Morgan on the same stand. While Mr. Clarke could not compare with Mr. Wiggin in the variety and scale of his operations he nevertheless...