Word: martyrizing
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...this election, Col. Smith will run as martyr. Presumably, no more moneys from Samuel Insull, public utilities potentate, will be required to send Col. Smith back to Washington to discover whether the Senate's recent treatment of him was a personal censure or an act "outlawing 7,000,000 people" for their approval of the Insull-bolstered Smith campaign...
...tried to dodge her grief with martyrdom. Believing she must help war cripples to happiness she lives with them. Dr. Ned Darrell, unconsciously in love with her, arranges to have her marry Sam Evans, genial weakling, to afford her anchorage. Not loving Sam she consents, thinking (still the martyr) she can beautify his life and ease her own sorrow with babies...
...penitentiary term for bootlegging. One Franklin L. Dodge, onetime Prohibition agent, was named as cuckoldor. Attorney Remus argued that Defendant Remus had become Murderer Remus by unbearable provocation from Mr. Dodge and Mrs. Remus and that Defendant Remus had, therefore, been made not only a millionaire but also a martyr by Prohibition...
...perfect obscurity by the criminal court route, carrying with him the odium of an indignant attempt on the part of the Senate to expel him-he went before the people to tell a story in which his own part had been one of infamy. He assumed the role of martyr. ... I stood by him with such loyalty as only a young man of unshattered ideals can give another...
...machine gunnery, gas, bombs and airplanes. In the mad race for the new "Little Augie" stuck to his guns. And so he died when bullets sought and found him among the pushcarts of the East Side, died under the rules of self-preservation that he had made, died a martyr to his own conservatism...