Word: traitorously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spectator had built up an audience of conservative people, and now these people are served with both Conservatism and Socialism. It is disconcerting to the constant readers of The Spectator, and some of them protest volubly by letter. Mr. Strachey still braves these protestants, and is called a traitor for his pains...
...plot. A trunk full of land-scrip proves a bone of contention and Taisie's own attractions very nearly wreck things at various times?for far too many people are anxious to marry her. The actions of McMasters often seem very strange?can it be that he is a traitor and in league with her enemies? Of course he isn't a traitor?and of course, in the end, he marries Taisie?the expedition is successful?the villain punished in an appropriately ghastly manner?in fact he is flayed alive? and Taisie and Dan, one conjectures, settle down to raising...
...been written of him that he is the "Pure Fool of Hungary with the accent on the pure." Recently the Budapest Supreme Court confiscated his lands, finding him guilty of high treason. There is no question of accents. Karolyi is either a fool or a traitor; most probably a fool: At the end of October, 1918, he formed the Hungarian Provisional National Assembly, and some time later he was elected first and last President of the Hungarian People's Republic. At this time Hungary was at war with the Allies. Karolyi either surrounded himself, or, more probably was surrounded...
...mere arrival of the Earthlings sets up an epidemic. They are put in quarantine?and promptly start ambushing their hosts as a beginning of making Utopia safe for Democracy. Only the subeditor, Mr. Barnstaple, dissents fro'm the Earthling program of conquest and is nearly shot as a traitor by his fellows as a result. He escapes from them, after hair-breadth adventures?they are shot back violently to earth via Utopian wireless?and he remains in Utopia for some time, studying its civilization. Finally, he returns?it is the only act of service he can do Utopia...
...ARNOLD. An intrepid and an able soldier. (" Perhaps it was vanity that made him so, but war can put up with a lot of vanity of that description.") Likewise he was an intrepid and an able spender. His merit unrewarded, his vanity injured, his purse empty, he deliberately turned traitor...