Word: martyrizing
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...Cohen No Martyr...
...have promised him a summons for next Thursday. He will doubtless get a nominal penalty, and the Transcript will come out with a benign editorial to the effect that Cohen is a bad boy but that time will teach him discretion. So Cohen will find himself not a martyr, but merely a "source of innocent merriment", which is not an agreeable position for a crusader...
...four, killing two. Paul Raditch, nephew of Stefan and father of seven, was one of those who died. Stefan Raditch crumpled with a bullet in his stomach. Fifty days later, in Zagreb, Croatian Capital, he died. That was last summer. To Croats, still, the name Raditch means Hero and Martyr. They gather in thousands to cry "Zhivoi Raditch! (Hail Raditch!)." Impatiently have they waited to be avenged...
Unhappy Croats had another reason to be bitter last week. Seven governing committee members of the Croatian Peasants Party, including Martyr Raditch's successor, Dr. Matchek, left an anti-Belgrade-dictatorship demonstration at Zagreb, were arrested, taken to Belgrade for incarceration...
...several weeks past President Paul von Hindenburg has been a martyr to rheumatic swelling in his knees. Doctors and masseurs bandaged and rubbed, but without success. Willy Sachs, famed Berlin mesmerist, was summoned at a cost of $25 per visit. After Willy Sachs had glared 15 times ($375) at the presidential joints without bringing relief, President von Hindenburg lost hope...