Word: traitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cosgrave. Their first pronunciamento attacked Communism "or any disguised form of it introduced surreptitiously into the country." In addition the Comrades Association attacked long-necked President de Valera and his tariff war with Great Britain: "We regard as charged with extremely dangerous potentialities the new fashion of branding as traitors certain public men with whom we have had the privilege of being associated in defense of the state. Should any Irishman come to harm as the result of 'traitor pointing' the consequences may lead to a deplorable condi tion of reprisal and counter-reprisal...
Cleero was called a demagogue, Shakspere a catehpenny playwright, Lincoln a traitor, it is therefore not surprising to find that Huey P. Long is also misunderstood. A few months ago, by wearing pajamas at the reception of a German diplomat, Mr. Long almost predicated an international crisis. Only a few condoned his unusual evening dress, for only a few were astute enough to realize that behind that melancholy face, beneath that rugged brow, there dwelt the searching spirit of a statesman...
...many institutions were swept into taking away from great scientists and thinkers the honors given them. A taint of Germanism was sufficient to brand a great man as an enemy to be despised. A slight leaning towards peace was sufficient to label a man a pacifist or a traitor to democracy...
...sharp sound the doors swung back and men spilled through on to the stone floor. The monks gave a frightened glance, and beseeching their master to follow ran hastily away. The Archbishop went forward to meet the knights alone, accompanied by one faithful. "Where is Thomas a Becket, traitor to King?" and he answered, "Here is the Archbishop of Canterbury." After a flurry of arms they knocked his mitre to the ground and Becket crushed it as his body fell. In a moment the great cathedral was empty, and as the candles guttered in the draft there...
...week; three thousands out of the eighteen thousand miners are blacklisted. Local officials regard themselves as the agents of the mine owners; local clergy uphold the violence and the starving-out tactics of the operators, and only bloodshed could come out of this starvation. The Press has proved "traitor" to the working class, while "under the pretext of combating communism, the mine-owners are giving Communism every support and justification...