Word: traitorousness
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When President Ernest Bartels of the Landtag announced the first reading of the bill, the Communists rose, en masse, shouting: "Traitor! Tool of tyrants! Bootlicker of the Hohenzollerns! . . ." Amid pandemonium the Communists sought to introduce a motion of lack of confidence against Prussian Premier Otto Braun (Socialist). When this motion was defeated and the Hohenzollern bill passed its second reading 210 to 38 the Communists forced a five minute suspension of the Landtag by their shouts of rage and dispersed to plan a filibuster by violence...
While Wu instantly dismissed traitor Chin from the Civil Governorship of Honan, it was rumored that Sun had tampered with others of Wu's officers, had acquired an ambition to be the Great Man distracted China has sought so long...
...told that, you know, he is exactly like an oyster, and he speculates in an ingenious diversion of ways as to what happens to the oyster when it leaves its bed. He gets mixed up in his chum's love affairs, attempts suicide because he has been called a traitor and traitors should be shot, and variously displays the pellucid simplicity of his nature, like the dear old boy he is. Norman Fanchild plays the Oyster; and he does things to an impossible role. The comedy of the piece is so broad that no mortal could look across...
Because Minister of Interior Jean Louis Malvy fell in a swoon (TIME, March 29) while enraged Deputies shrieked, "Traitor! Pig! Lover of Mata Hari!" and because he subsequently resigned from Premier Briand's Cabinet (TIME, April 19), many Frenchmen had been strengthened in their belief of the nine-year-old charge that he was once the lover of Mata Hari, a Javanese-Dutch dancer, who allegedly secured and sold to Germany secrets concerning the British tank (1917) and was shot as a spy on French soil a few months later...
Trembling with rage and stumbling in his nervousness, M. Malvy himself mounted the tribune. A slight, dark man with large prominent eyes, his voice was heard only occasionally over roars of "Traitor!" "Chacal!" "Resign!" "Scelerat!" "Pig!" "Traitor...