Word: martyrizing
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...short career it has been with the exception of Candida", the most widely praised of Shaw's plays. Now it has brought him one of the few "literary", prizes worth having, its permanency is only sanctified. "A saint," he says in the preface to 'St. Joan', "is a successful martyr." With his 32,500 dollars, Mr. Shaw can never be canonized...
...Negro slaves. He must have a citadel. So, with only 18 men, he captured the U. S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va., and was in turn captured by Robert E. Lee. John Brown was hanged. Fifteen hundred soldiers stood by to prevent disorder. Abolitionists called him a martyr; Southerners, a murderous fanatic. The gap in the Union widened...
...year-old captain in the Revolutionary Army waited to be hanged as a spy by the British. With the rope around his neck, he said quietly: "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country." The life was that of Nathan Hale, martyr, hero...
...silent as President Coolidge" on the $3,000,000 Pennsylvania primary and the $1,000,000 Illinois primary. . . . "Both primaries show that our opponents have no scruples about buying an election. Pepper and Vare in Pennsylvania and Smith in Illinois make Newberry a figure to be canonized as a martyr of a party of great moral ideas." 2) Governmental expenditures have increased under President Coolidge and "every substantial reduction of taxes
...those who brought her both Christianity and European civilization, and to exalt the memory of the Montezuman emperors. This campaign has culminated in a feeling that the Roman Church is antinational. This is the reason why we need expect no Mexican, whether Indian or non-Indian, to become a martyr for his faith. It explains, furthermore, why the extraordinarily complex religious situation has not aroused the people, or excited them to offer violent resistance to the Government's measures. "My first call was upon the Archbishop, Monsignor Mora y del Rio. . . . The archepiscopal palace is near the flower market...