Word: traitorously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right of the public to a square deal on all occasions -to a fair show for its 'white alley.' I consider a newspaper to be the retained attorney for the public, and I believe a newspaper which is faithless to that trust is as much of a traitor as an attorney who betrays the interests of the client who employs him." Against the common charges of vulgar sensationalism, of pandering to the evil in men's minds, of propagating and feeding prejudices and class-hatred, Mr. Hearst made no defense. Among those present at the dinner were...
Kemal has stepped from the crucible of conflicting calumnies with an unstained reputation. Some of these wild reports charged him with being anything from a traitor to his country to being a "foreigner." Kemal is pure Turk (not, as some have said, a Jew) and has proved to the whole world that he is the core of Modern Turkey. He is a fine type of professional soldier, who has earned his laurels by sticking to his calling. Professor Arnold J. Toynbee, in his admirably written book, The Western Question in Greece and Turkey, says of him: "He proved...
...himself and his wife, who betakes herself to rather frenzied merriment with the idlers whom he hates. When he refuses a job as Deputy Director for the South Coast, because he sees the home defense force as no more than an instrument of capitalistic tyranny, Joyce calls him a traitor and leaves him in disgust. The disgust is largely mutual. Bertram goes on a tour through Europe-representing a liberal weekly-and the plot stands still for a good many pages of observation. Further developments are an attack of typhus for Bertram, the convenient death of the man whom Joyce...
Both acts, in Greece and in Illinois, have been condemned--not because the one put six "heroes" to death or the other sets an "arch-traitor" free, but because they represent in themselves a perversion of justice. Perhaps the Greek execution is the lesser...
...Boston election and the year before only 30 percent voted for members of the municipal council. Everyone can perform this service and no man or woman who has the right to vote and fails to vote through his own fault, can regard himself as other than a traitor to democracy...