Word: scapegoat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That Shearer is not going to be made a scapegoat while some of his pious critics go scot free is beyond reasonable doubt...
...German espionage was rife in the French Army. To obtain a scapegoat and to cater to anti-Semitic factions, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, able Jew, was accused by the high command, tried, convicted, sent to Devil's Island. The question shook Europe. After five years the Dreyfusards won. Capt. Dreyfus was retried, found guilty "with extenuating circumstances," pardoned by the President. In 1906 he was formally declared innocent. He fought for France in the War, gained the rank of colonel, still lives in Paris...
Then came the attempted uprising. No one in the Maniu government, however, dared blame the Bratianu "Liberals" openly. Elected scapegoat was a little-known artillery colonel, one August Stojka. Though Bucharest newspapers dared print no comment on the uprising, its cause or effect, the following effusion was issued by Minister of the Interior Vaida-Voevod...
...scapegoat is never an enviable one, and when one person hears the burden of a whole organization's misdeeds sympathy will probably be slow in coming. The case of Mrs. Florence Knapp, who has just been convicted of larceny committed while Secretary of State of New York, is not quite the same because it was unusual enough to arouse public interest. Women have been singularly unfortunate in their political adventures of late years, and no one forgets the debacle of "Ma" Ferguson in Tex, but when prominent Republican leaders admitted that her only fault was in not covering her tracks...
...newspaper. The onetime Kaiser, now a grey-bearded old man, has seemingly lost none of his arrogance, none of his pomposity, none of his commanding dogmatism; for, complaining, he said to the Danish newspaperman: "I could show the road to peace, but the world prefers regarding me as a scapegoat to consulting me as an adviser...