Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is high treason? The learned and venerable Professor Triantafyllppoulos, Minister of Justice, astonished international jurists last week by declaring that one who seizes the temporal power by violence has committed high treason if the people as a whole are subsequently dissatisfied with his government, but that the same act does not constitute high treason if the populace subsequently approves...
...band of redskins had yanked his wife naked from her blazing bed and scalped her before his eyes. The hero-perhaps Mr. Curwood as he would like to have been-is golden-haired, steel-sinewed David Rock who, through his attachment to the humanitarian Black Hunter, is suspected of treason by his foppish, malicious French overlords and lives through to wed silken-lashed Anne St. Denis only by the slim width of a tomahawk blade. History pours forth aplenty through the tale, but not more than Mr. Curwood's vast and romantic public can follow. All the characters have...
Meanwhile Senator Norris, insurgent Nebraskan, contemplates again the worthwhileness of political life, the betrayals, the corruption, the callow honors. He recalls the "treason" his Progressive friends played him some years ago when they backed the Kenyon packer bill instead of his own packer bill. That day he collapsed in the Senate. Since, he has remained inexcitable over the rehashed chatter, begun by Mr. LaFollette in 1924, to give U. S. politics another Progressive orientation. Feeling that most of the institutions they are combating are as firmly embedded as ever, he now, as in 1924, turns toward the recourse of soft...
German headline writers attached exclamation points to such belligerent polysyllabic as "MAJESTATSBELEIDIGUNG!" (High Treason!) Wrathy editors distilled their venom into starkly brutal paragraphs. The week brawled out into a stramash of contention?all because some millions of Germans were preparing to seek the polls and cast their ballots upon the following proposition...
...interview printed by the Warsaw press. Grimly he reflected that he was still the idol of the Polish army, that most Polish soldiers subscribe to the famed remark of a nameless private: "Our Pilsudski has only to wink his eye and we will all commit anything from treason to suicide, according to his orders...