Word: martyrize
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Recruited from the franks of those who failed to top the 75 per cent mark in last June's college entrance English examination, 7300 Freshmen bear witness to Harvard College's determination to Harvard College's determination that her graduates may to a man look bace upon their alma martyr" with a feeling that they have there learned, if they did, not already know, how to speak and write good English. A list made public in University Hall yesterday reveals that English A is still the most populous course, with History 1. claiming 703, in second place again. Concentration, distribution...
...After leaving school, some men go to college, some to work, and a few to Harvard," declared, one essayist. "When these few get to Cambridge they spend most of their time fighting for 'dear old Alma Martyr, taking Physics and studying objects that can be described as 'completely globular in every dimension,' and reading scenes from Shakespeare's 'Twelfth-Knight'" ... or so the section men might be led to believe...
...authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it." He sent this statement to his colonel, was immediately ordered to report. To the colonel's great embarrassment, he found Sassoon wanted to be court-martialled, to be a martyr-example. Finally Robert Graves (whom Sassoon calls David Cromlech) got Sassoon to give in by telling him he would never be court-martialled but would be shut up in a lunatic asylum for the duration. It was announced Sassoon had shell shock; he was ordered to a hospital. Graves...
Uriburu: Nonsen! I am not simple enough to make a martyr of you-but your resignation is necessary to prevent bloodshed. Resign or you will be imprisoned...
Married. Henry Louis Mencken, editor of American Mercury, utterer of exuberancies and abominations; and Sara Powell Haardt, Mercury contributor; at the Church of St. Stephen the Martyr in Baltimore...