Word: martyrizing
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...true no gaping crowds of docile youth are compelled to stop in the highways and by-ways to listen whether they will or not. But the modern doctor who a message will be heard and sustained outside academic walls. He may, if he looks too far ahead, suffer the martyr's fate. But, if he chooses the wiser method of teaching those things the multitude can hear, he may sustain himself without resort to the tender mercies of trustees, presidents; and bursars. His earnings may, indeed, be sufficient to lift him above the feelings of indigence so destructive to free...
...psychology that breeds war, and of this war-breeding psychology the United States is manufacturing her full share. We are doing more than any other country ecept France to make a settlement of the Russian situation impossible. Eugene Debs is still in Atlanta penitentiary, preaching peace while we martyr him for agreeing with Lincoln's stand in the Mexican war, and with, Franklin's statement about all wars. In those two examples we see embodied the belief that the best way to solve foreign problems is to seek pretexts for war, and the best way to create peace between...
...strong inclination to say one's prayers; the faculty to cope with Kant and the childlike aptitude for faith; the sheepishness of the Shakespearean mask and the sublimity of the poet; the greatness of Queen Elizabeth and the pretentiousness of her virginity; the grace of Charles the Martyr and his unending folly; the greasy corpulence of Gautier and the perfection of his verse; the divine murmur of Verlaine and the cretin's mentality...
...Wood Not a Martyr...
...peculiarly mean spirited attitude of the administration toward Wood during the war has led many persons to look upon him as a martyr. General Wood has never by a single word commented on the action of the administration in keeping him from the front. Even in his campaign speeches he has refused to indulge in criticism of the Democratic regime. He is the last man to pose as one who has suffered a wrong at the hands of his enemies or opponents. In other words, General Wood is not a martyr. He is not running for the presidential nomination...