Word: martyrizing
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...innocence of Mind, and gentle Manners, once obtain'd her the Love and Esteem of all who knew her, But when Nerves were too delicately spun to bear the rude Shakes and Jostlings which we meet with in this transitory World, Nature gave way; she sunk and died a Martyr to Excessive Sensibility...
When F. V. Morley, brother of thunderer upon the left Christopher Morley, set sail with two friends down the Thames? in their converted ship's lifeboat Wife of Bath he naturally found many such bits of rare Anglicana as the Martyr's epitaph above. Young Morley, like his columnist-novelist brother, is one of those for whom any river will wimple with apt allusion. Half the poets of England creep into Mr. Morley's book, a pat line or stanza from each. And he can himself do such sure telling bits as: "The first lock, by Inglesham Round House, holds...
They will again argue that by revealing the most intimate details they are making the men they treat more human, that they bring back a sense of balance, that they tear away the clouds of sanctified hokum which still surround such a figure as "The Martyr President" Harding, who died of eating crab-meat out of season to the end that all who exploited him Doheny, Fall, Sinclair, et al, should not be punished but should have everlasting freedom from justice...
...Some of the bootleg liquor is just as deadly as denatured alcohol. It is strange logic to insist that if a person buys bootleg poisoned alcohol and is killed by using it he is a martyr. But if he buys carbolic acid and drinks it he is merely a suicide...
...scandals break into the open; the President's big heart breaks with his pals' dishonor. After one last poker revel with them, he returns to the White House and takes poison, thinking it is a sleeping potion. He dies slowly, mourned by the nation-a martyr and a hero. President Coolidge is reported to be annoyed at the book. And well he might be, on reading such a passage as the following: "There came, too, the Vice President, so soon to be President, who looked inscrutably at the dying man out of his fishy eyes and assured...