Word: scapegoat
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...French Academy. While Cezanne, after dinner one night, is telling Zola that his head is as overstuffed as his stomach, L'Affaire Dreyfus is having its beginnings. The General Staff of the French Army, discovering that someone has been selling military secrets to Germany, looks around for a scapegoat, finds one in Captain Alfred Dreyfus (Joseph Schildkraut), the only Jew on the General Staff. Dreyfus is tried, convicted on built-up evidence, degraded and sent to Devil's Island...
...could speak no English, Lola's principal function was to act as interpreter, often in uncomfortably intimate scenes. When one day Essenine got drunk and insisted on going out for a walk by himself to get away from women, there was a fierce quarrel. Lola was made the scapegoat, lost that...
...weaned the gentle oldster away from his partner in order to further his own ambitions for California's governorship; 4) Dr. Townsend's clique, fearful lest the Congressional investigation disclose some shady Townsend financing, had ousted Secretary Clements in order to have a convenient scapegoat; 5) Dr. Townsend wanted a Townsend third party, while Secretary Clements did not; 6) Secretary Clements wanted a Townsend third party, while Dr. Townsend...
...uncertainty he has but one course;-to return Condon to the United States and air the case from top to bottom before a possibly innocent man be allowed to die in the chair. Far better to reopen this question, unpleasant as it may be, than to choose blindly some scapegoat to satisfy the demands of justice...
...Reynaud the Tiger's Cub attacked the chief eulogist in France of Britain. The better to be able to eulogize, M. Reynaud went to London and sat in the House of Commons gallery while Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made Sir Samuel Hoare a scapegoat (TIME, Dec. 30). Last week this trans-Channel junket seemed likely to blast many of M. Reynaud's political ambitions. As he went down under the Tiger's Cub, millions of Frenchmen pondered with care the exposition of the Ethiopian Question given by André Tardieu. Excerpt...