Word: traitorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coward, a traitor, and a thief." Purple veins stood out large on Napoleon's bull-neck as he concluded his tirade. "You have never worthily performed a single duty. You have betrayed and deceived everybody. You would sell your own father. You are a mess of dung in a silk stocking." The Emperor stopped, red-faced; he was out of breath. For half an hour Talleyrand had leaned, graceful and impassive, against a small table by the fire. Now he moved. Slowly, easily, he limped across the great carpet and paused at the white paneled doors. "What a pity...
What King Alexander thinks should become of amputated Croatia, Svetozar Pribitchevitch did not reveal. His other "revelations"-true or false-caused a terrific Belgrade sensation, set many citizens of the Capital to vowing that they had a "traitor King." According to a telephoned despatch from Belgrade which eluded censorship: "His Majesty suffered last night from a three-hour nervous collapse brought on by fear of assassination...
...Soviet Government knows all about "the theory of permanent revolution" and highly disapproves of it. Dictator Josef Stalin and his ruling class hate & fear Leon Trotsky even more than do kings & queens. Last week pro-Stalin Communists daubed Copenhagen streets with this strange device: Down with Premier Stauning and Traitor Trotsky! Long Live Soviet Russia...
...declare with the immense financial authority of a former Chancellor of the Exchequer that Great Britain now faces an economic crisis more disastrous than last year (when the pound slipped off gold); 3) to resign as Lord Privy Seal, denouncing Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald as a traitor to the traditional Labor Party tenet of Free Trade...
Though he seems to have been "disintoxicated" several times, Cocteau, unlike famed Addict Thomas De Quincey, admits no desire to "reform." He writes: "Do not expect me to be a traitor. Naturally opium remains unique and its well-being superior to that of health. To it I owe my perfect hours." Saying that to lecture an opium addict is like telling Tristan to kill Isolde, he comes nearest to an apology when he writes: "Living is a horizontal fall. But for that fixative, a life completely and continually conscious of its speed would become intolerable. It allows the man condemned...