Word: martyrizing
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...Latin countries, boys are named for a patron saint and celebrate that saint's day as other boys celebrate birthdays. Therefore, the boy who was Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti and who is now the 71-year old Pope, chose the day of Achilles the Martyr (May 12) for the issuance of his fervent encyclical...
...suspicion that the judges of the case sought to punish him not for the moral qualities of this, one of the first fruit from his pen, but for his revolutionary proclivities in general. This youngster in the field of literature was indeed beginning to regard himself as a martyr, so unjust did he feel the decision to be, and so the reversal of the original verdict is excellent policy on the part of the courts, which have long been accused of a violent ultra-conservatism; they are avoiding this accusation, and at the same time are putting a damper...
...political convulsion in Illinois (see p. 11) echoed in the Senate. Many a Senator expressed relief that Frank L. Smith, Senate outcast, had been cast out also by the people of Illinois as an exponent of corruption instead of canonized as a martyr to States' rights...
...YEARS BETWEEN. 2 Vols--I. The Mysterious Cavalier: H. Martyr to the Queen. By Paul Feval and M. Lassez. Longnians, Green and Co. New York...
...superintendent (TIME, Oct. 10 et seq.). Mr. McAndrew treated the whole affair with contempt, walked out of his "insubordination" trial by the school board like a man leaving an ineffectual burlesque show. Perhaps contempt meant "too proud to fight," perhaps there was no great glory in being the martyr of a burlesque show; so last week Mr. McAndrew turned on Mayor Thompson with a legal rapier, sued him for libel...