Word: martyrizing
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...that they even dare to shout infamously, "To hell with the constitution," I shall retire to the solitude of my home and I shall kneel before the pictures of George Washington, the founder of our Republic, Abraham Lincoln, the saviour of our Country, and Woodrow Wilson, who died a martyr to the ideal of making the whole world safe for democracy, and in joyous gratitude I shall thank the "author of liberty" that the Arkansas legislative monstrosity has at last expired. I shall pray devoutly that a blessing may come from the travesty of justice. That the eyes...
...reports said that Floyd Collins had been stolen from his coffin, traced by bloodhounds, and discovered in a burlap sack about 400 yards from the cave. Editors pondered because Floyd Collins, martyr, was a creation of the Press. The Press must be true to its own. What...
...exceeding grace and innocence. Second was a manuscript performance of Respighi's Roman Festivals, music that would be perilously close to claptrap if done by any other. But Toscanini found something real and savage in all the din of the Circus Maximus episode. Lions roared. Christians sang their martyr songs. Part of it would make excellent accompaniment for a Griffith cinema with its bells and serenades and saltarellos, but Toscanini made it seem important for itself, almost a worthy companion to Debussy's Iberia, which followed; and to the Tannhauser overture which, for once, said all that Wagner...
...Apostle of Freedom. We wanted to finish this Protest by adapting one of his poems. It would have been a graceful gesture to a MARTYR...
...claiming sainthood for Louis XVI as a martyr to the faith, French Catholics are undoubtedly stretching somewhat the historical version of his execution. Louis was primarily a political victim; his life was a standing menace to the security of any thoroughgoing revolutionary regime and as such could not have been spared. But the case of the French Catholics is not so ill-founded as at first blush might appear...