Word: traitorously
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...shortcomings, the speaker proceeded to assert, for the pro-Germans know well that our country's ruthless enemies, whom they serve as far as they dare, desire nothing so much as to see this country afraid to acknowledge and make good its shortcomings; and those pro-Germans cloak their traitor-our aid to Germany under the camouflage of pretended zeal to save American officials from just criticism. "But there is an even lower depth," Mr. Roosevelt affirmed, "and this is reached by the men who treat the discovery of our shortcomings as a reason for relaxing our efforts...
...proposal and suggested to the Chamber that he be impeached. That such a widespread scandal could exist without some foundation seems improbable, but on the other hand it seems well nigh impossible that in any of the great countries today a member of the Cabinet should be an active traitor. It is characteristic of France that no attempt is made to conceal the offence, but instead an honest effort is on foot, in the interest of fair play, to discover the truth of the matter, and to extirpate all interests that are not working directly for the complete success...
...there can be only one answer. We must rally to the flat under which we live and prosper. Our hearts are bleeding at the thoughts of fratricide, but they must bleed. We will shame those that would cast the odium of disloyalty on us. In all our history no traitor has been found, not will be found, among citizens of German origin. G. PRIESTER...
...proverbial. In the olden days he used to try to kill his enemy with an axe; that failing, he invited him to dinner. Now, in athletic contests, he beats his rivals in the afternoon and then dines them in the evening; or, in the House of Commons, he shouts "traitor" and "liar" at his best friend on the opposite bench and then after the session walks out with him arm in arm. The Yale and Harvard track teams last summer experienced more than a touch of that social grace which the Englishman unites with his most hostile athletic endeavors...
...almost absurdity. characters say the opposite of what they would naturally say, and do the opposite of what they would naturally do. They do not speak; they declaim. The situations are exceptional and extraordinary. The characters are all conventional: The old man, the young man pursued by fate, the traitor, the mysterious man who knows everything...