Word: martyred
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Earl Browder had gone to jail acting as though he were delighted at the chance to be a martyr. He didn't have $1,500 to put up as bail on a contempt of Congress charge, and, he said contentedly, he didn't know where to find...
Asked his present ideological beliefs, he said, humbly, that he was "a student of Marxism." As he was led off to jail with the look of the martyr on his face, none of the comrades was around to note...
...class ruminations pad out the rest of the book, but they justify their intrusion only a couple of times. The Fastest Runner on Sixty-First Street (a sprinting champion who runs straight to his death during a race riot) shows the author at his Chicasro-street-corner best. The Martyr, anti-Communist Farrell's dissection of what a U.S. Communist writer is up against when he tries to shade the party line, comes as close as anything in recent fiction to making homegrown intellectual Reds human in their fears, fallacies and betrayals...
Last week, after more than 20 years of such torment, death-ironically, from a heart ailment-came to Percy Emerson Brown, 74, a martyr to the Roentgen rays...
...door in very shallow, incised bas-relief to achieve an effect of depth through drawing and flat planes. The large left-hand panel of his door showed such great teacher-saints as John the Baptist, Augustine, Benedict, Ignatius and John Bosco. The right-hand panel included such confessor-and martyr-saints as Francis of Assisi, Dominic and Joan...