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Monastery St. Stephanos is named for an early martyr and also for the family that gave it to the Greek Orthodox Church: the family of Constantine and Stefano Stephano, makers of Rameses, Stephana and Smiles cigarets. Emigrating from Epirus some 40 years ago, the Stephano brothers sold cigarets in the streets of New York, worked in tobacco shops, settled in Philadelphia to build their own business...
...Brent to hold her ex-husband's hand, thus saving him from death. But Mr. Brent is at last bored by sacrifice. He persuades her to marry him-and immediately leaves for China. Miss Chatterton stays behind to hold her first husband's hand. She is a martyr and happily married at the same time...
Half of India had heard of Krishna Kant next day. Nationalist agitators thanked their stars for an easy martyr. Wholesale arrests continued. Indian papers printed page-long lists of political convictions. In Bombay, crowds searched houses for British cloth, built bonfires of it in the streets. Bengal police fired into a crowd, killed one, wounded...
...acts dismissed 228 policemen and promoted one patrolman to sergeant. That one was Charles P. Lang, whom Secretary Charles Francis Adams of the Navy dismissed from the Naval Reserve for wearing a U. S. uniform while making a liquor raid last July. "Lang," explained Mr. Schofield, "was made a martyr in the Navy and despite an honorable career was dismissed ... by a misguided and egotistic little whiffet...
...president, 72-year-old Dr. Sokolow, is conservative, suave, quiet. Eminent among Jewish linguists and scholars, he has all his life been a journalist. Emotionally he spoke at the opening meeting, not in the statesman's but in the Hebraist's manner: "We are the oldest martyr people in the world! What pen can describe the wrongs and cruelties we have borne in the course of thousands of years? What good the nations have done us by such action as the Balfour Declaration is not kindness. Shall we now be driven into mistrust of mankind?" Fervently he quoted...