Word: traitorousness
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...Last week irrepressible Dame ("Fanny") Lucy was at it again on her yacht, The Liberty once owned by not-quite-so-rich and eccentric Joseph Pulitzer. From The Liberty, on which Lady Houston lives with steam constantly up, blazes at her whim an electric sign DOWN WITH MACDONALD, THE TRAITOR...
...during the War at a time when British soldiers at the front were short of shells. "How can you be secure?" Dame Lucy planned to query the readers of the Saturday Review. "How can you be sure your dear ones will not be sacrificed through the treachery of this traitor...
...extreme Right parties loyal to "His Most Catholic Majesty." As tension grew the Mayor of Badajos was stabbed to death by poll pug-uglies, but not until he had fired his pistol several times, accidentally wounding a woman and child. In Madrid a pack of Socialists shouting "Kill the traitor!" chased for blocks a man who had cried "Long live the King!" He finally escaped into the Ministry of Public Works where he was arrested. At Gallarta one heroic priest, though shot in the abdomen by a Socialist poll watcher, insisted on being carried to the voting urn to ballot...
...officers nodded approvingly when the deathless spirit of Japanese fanaticism was shown again last week by one Tokuji Miyata, 26, bespectacled student of political science. With a dagger in his sleeve Student Miyata banged on the door of Admiral Takeshi Takarabe whom most other Japanese Navy officers consider a traitor because he was a negotiator of the London Naval Treaty with its 5-5-3 ratio...
...they got the feel of a shillalah in one hand, the heft of a handful of rock in the other and tramped into Tralee. When they saw the Blue Shirts coming they flung their rocks, howling ''Up de Valera!", "O'Duffy is a traitor!", then ducked in for the shillalah work. Some of them set upon General O'Duffy, bludgeoned him bloody-pated before he could get into the meeting hall. Next the howling Kerrymen burned his automobile, waited until the meeting was finished, took a new grip on their shillalahs, fresh handfuls of rock...