Word: traitorousness
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...whispered. He banged the jury rail, sketched imaginary portraits, nourished a roll of microfilm until it snapped into a tangled mess. He invoked Almighty God, motherhood and the American flag. He accused the FBI of "impairing" defense witnesses. He pronounced the Government's star witness, Whittaker Chambers, a "traitor, thief, liar, perjurer, enemy of his country and a hypocrite," likened him to a coiled scorpion and a germ in a bottle of milk...
Murphy dismissed the testimony to Hiss's good reputation-until caught up with, "Judas Iscariot had a reputation." So did Major General Benedict Arnold, who "could have called George Washington as a character witness." Murphy shouted: "Alger Hiss was a traitor. Another Benedict Arnold. Another Judas Iscariot. Another Judge Manton, who was in high places and was convicted right here in this building . . .* Someone has said that roses that fester stink worse than weeds. A brilliant man like this man, who betrays his trust, stinks. Inside that smiling face is a heart black and cancerous. He is a traitor...
Leopold's case has been summed up by wartime Premier Hubert Pierlot. "The King is not a traitor," he wrote in 1947. "We have never doubted his good intentions. There is nothing unconstitutional in a King's being wrong, provided he follows the advice of his government. In this case, his ministers take the responsibility for his acts. But the King has acted on his own against the advice of his government . . . What is even more serious, he refrained from informing his ministers of his intentions ... A minister who bears the responsibility has a right to know...
...just down the street and the kind, ugly butcher next door. Sometimes Mamma Erato slinks out of her room to make her way to the church and light a candle to St. Mary. On her way back she stops to see her friend, the butcher. "Is my son a traitor?" she asks him then. "Is that what people...
...season when the public snubbed the critics. Despite a strong press, Life with Mother and The Traitor flopped financially; despite a badly mixed press, Where's Charley? and Jean Giraudoux's enchanting Madwoman of Chaillot flourished. Musically, 1948-49 could point with pride to Kiss Me, Kate as well as South Pacific; but, to only one enjoyable revue, Lend an Ear. It was a season when the mourners' bench was lined with Tennessee Williams, Clifford Odets, John van Druten, Kaufman & Ferber, Garson Kanin, Marc Connelly...