Word: traitorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Takauji Ashikaga lost no time in pulling himself up by the sacred boot straps of the Emperor. As the Emperor's most trusted adviser he hoped to become Shogun. When Go Daigo appointed his son instead, Takauji, furious but resourceful, persuaded the Emperor that his son was a traitor, had him put to death. Next he worked on Go Daigo's army with bribes. Finally in 1335 he set himself up as Shogun at Kamakura. Go Daigo, refusing to recognize him, fled south to Yoshino but remembered to take the sacred mirror of the Sun Goddess, the sacred...
...this came from Lawrence's conviction that Murry was not willing to "destroy us both" for perfect understanding. Mr. Murry has given us a strange, and a touching, meta-physical exegesis of these passages. Mrs. Carswell took the more obvious line of branding Murry as a traitor to Lawrence; Murry has shown that she left very little of literary ethic intact after "The Savage Pilgrimage". As a document for the understanding of the controversy. Mr. Murry's book is valuable, as a key to Mr. Murry's psychology it takes rank with his life of Christ and his "metabiological treatise...
...house party is disrupted by a murder every one of its members looks suspiciously at the others, knowing that any one of them may be a murderer. Last week officials of the U. S. Treasury looked at one another with similar discomfort believing that among their number was a traitor...
...office at odd moments, chattering in dialect. Lawyer Simon's stepchildren are nasty urchins who despise him for an illbred Jew. His secretary worships him. Not so a fervent young Communist (Vincent Sherman) with a broken head who convincingly berates Lawyer Simon as a traitor to his class. The only flaw to be found in John Barrymore's gothically elaborate characterization of a dramatic personage in a forceful, facile story is the fact that he never for an instant seems to be the Jew he is supposed to be. Good shot: a plaintively self-conscious clerk inviting Lawyer...
...extreme Right parties loyal to "His Most Catholic Majesty." As tension grew the Mayor of Badajos was stabbed to death by poll pug-uglies, but not until he had fired his pistol several times, accidentally wounding a woman and child. In Madrid a pack of Socialists shouting "Kill the traitor!" chased for blocks a man who had cried "Long live the King!" He finally escaped into the Ministry of Public Works where he was arrested. At Gallarta one heroic priest, though shot in the abdomen by a Socialist poll watcher, insisted on being carried to the voting urn to ballot...