Word: traitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orkney Islands, where a bicycle accident crippled him for life. He went into politics and became first Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer (1924, 1929-31). His hard-headed insistence on rigid economy brought the British Government through the early part of the Depression. Philip Snowden was branded a "traitor" to the working class when he and Ramsay MacDonald coalesced with the "National" (Conservative) Government of 1931. He retired from politics next year...
...take issue. No one regrets the necessity for violence more than we do. Unhappily, there are times when violence is the only way in which social justice can be secured. At another time, you would condemn an Archbishop by vote of Parliament and execute him formally as a traitor, and no one would have to bear the burden of being called murderer. But if you have now arrived at a just subordination of the pretensions of the Church to the welfare of the State, remember that it is we who took the first step. . . . We have served your interests...
...though he is the leader of the rebellion. The tragedy is intensified in that the very strength of their love is the cause of his shooting. The radicals in the rebelling forces believe that Aherne signs a peace treaty because of love, and they mark him for a traitor's death. Through the whole movie runs the note of inevitable tragedy ominous events follow each other rapidly--, and the sympathy of the audience is high pitched for the lovers caught in a net of death. At the first run in New York the ending was logical but sad, for Aherne...
...even money. In addition to burning the Armada with the aid of seven men in rowboats, Ingolby escapes from a Spanish galleon, sails in a fishing smack from Spain to England, foils an attempt on the Queen's life, uncovers a Spanish plot to assassinate her, impersonates a traitor to his land at the court of Spain's King Philip II, defeats the King's palace guard in a fencing match and accompanies his own songs on the Spanish guitar, in return for which he gets a title and the Queen's cutest lady-in-waiting...
Everyone last week who believed Izvestia, now raking Radek savagely in its columns, everyone who believed in Soviet Justice saw clearly that in Arch-Traitor Radek's case the only possible sentence was Death-and this had been predicted in cables not only by Walter Duranty of the New York Times but by all the big wire services out of Moscow...