Word: martyrizing
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...when its canons are disregarded in editorial writing such infraction is in itself quite sufficient to nullify the effect of what one says with one's readers. Even if the faculty's contention be granted then, to suspend Stephenson was to do the unnecessary, and, moreover, to make, a martyr of an offender...
...martyr to the cause of Prohibition," declared Mrs. Abbie Anderson, who is Recording Secretary of the Iowa...
...with courtesy but without concentration to the man's stammered protestations. At their conclusion he directed the waiter to bring to the table a bottle of Imperial Toquay, and having filled two glasses, said; "Your health, my friend." Eugene Field, that celebrated wag with the face of a tortured martyr, would shamble into Lawson's office, bent on a loan of lunch money. Then would follow mumbled circumlocutions, explanations, an appeal, a roar of laughter from Lawson. Twisting his Savonarola visage, Field would scuttle from the office. . . "Sure, I diddled...
...Great Britain were issued. Three golfers were listed at scratch-Roger Wethered, Sir Ernest Holderness, Cyril J. H. Tolley. The first is lean, composed, frosty. His wrists are steel springs ; his swing is the crack of a quirt. The second, gloomy, nervous, plays with the air of a martyr being tortured for his faith, has twice won the amateur championship. The immense shoulders, the full-moon face, the stocky legs of the third*, haunt the dreams of the many U. S. golfers who have seen him send his drives away, like bridesmaids, to the place where the parallels...
...would rather have only twenty-five good earnest workers than a hundred half-hearted martyr volunteers...