Word: martyrizing
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Uriburu: Nonsen! I am not simple enough to make a martyr of you-but your resignation is necessary to prevent bloodshed. Resign or you will be imprisoned...
Married. Henry Louis Mencken, editor of American Mercury, utterer of exuberancies and abominations; and Sara Powell Haardt, Mercury contributor; at the Church of St. Stephen the Martyr in Baltimore...
...last were "Martyr King" Charles I, born at Dunfermline, 1600, and his brother Robert, Duke of Kintyre...
...great and good man, a bishop and a martyr, St. Januarius is not the Patron Saint of Earthquakes, but of Naples. Tortured and beheaded by the Emperor Diocletian, his skull and two phials containing his blood (see cut) are among the most sacred relics of Naples Cathedral. Eighteen times a year the phials of blood miraculously liquefy. The skull has a reputation for stopping eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius. While the faithful prayed in the square last week, dour Cardinal Ascalesi, splendid in scarlet soutane and sash, held high the gold-encased skull, blessed 20,000 worshippers...
...bear must have protection, why does not "Sportsman White" offer himself as a martyr to the cause and henceforth play personal guard to his "harmless" brownies...