Word: traitorously
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...love of their own people; but who, like this man, has drunk his sweetest cup of welcome with another?'' But the editor's favorite Great Character was Napoleon: "A Royalist, a republican, and an emperor; a Mohammedan, a Catholic, and a patron of the synagogue, a traitor and a tyrant, he was through all his vicissitudes a Man." When Editor McGuffey clipped from the German Press a bloody, harrowing account of a railway wreck, called it The Crazed Engineer, his publishers objected, cut it from posthumous editions...
...retreat from Moscow had sworn allegiance to Bourbon Louis XVIII on the Empire's fall, set out to bring Napoleon to Paris in an iron cage when he returned from Elba, joined him instead with his whole army. After Waterloo Marshal Ney was condemned to a traitor's death. Following the execution his corpse lay on the ground for a quarter-hour, was then delivered to his family who placed it in a lead casket, buried it without ceremony in an unmarked grave in Paris' Pere-Lachaise Cemetery...
...over at the other end of the Capitol, West Virginia's stripling Senator Rush Dew Holt had led-strangely enough, since it was the United Mine Workers who had helped elect him and John L. Lewis was frowning down from the gallery and cursing him for a traitor- a filibuster against the substitute Guffey Coal Control Bill. Spelled by colleagues eager to speak their pieces in the nation's ear for the last time this year, Senator Holt kept the filibuster going through the afternoon and evening, at one time piping passages from Aesop's Fables...
Serious Laborites have called Jim Thomas a traitor to his party for joining the National Government. Jealous socialites call him a vulgar little bounder. Last week both groups were after his hide when Colonial Secretary James Henry Thomas appeared before Mr. Justice Porter to testify on the Budget leak...
...overworked expression. His negroes are authentic, and so are his "planter" aristocrats. Ben, the loyal old slave, who betrays the insurgents; Melody, the mulatto mistress of the white rascals; Juba, the slave girl who is in love with the hero; Mr. Moseley Sheppard, Ben's master; Pharaoh, the other traitor--all these characters remain fixed in the memory some time after one has finished reading the book. Gabriel, the hero, who had pondered on the exploits of Toussainat L'Ouverture, the Haitian patriot, is not so forceful as a better novelist would have made him, but he is strong enough...