Word: iconoclast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fond of clothes and horse-racing, Promoter Rice has long been the prime U. S. schemer. His latest efforts were centered in Boston where he ran the "Boston Curb," dealing in his own stocks, most famed of which were Idaho Copper and Columbia Emerald. Through his "financial" paper, The Iconoclast, he kept in touch with gullible yokels, advising them of activities within the companies and upon the "Curb." Faith-provoking methods of the Iconoclast were constant attacks upon margin trading, advice to buy sound New York Stock Exchange securities, instructions that widows and near-paupers keep their funds in savings...
George V's preference for Daimlers dates from the purchase of a one-cylinder car of that make by his father, Edward VII. That young iconoclast, Edward of Wales, owns a Rolls-Royce town car, but like his father uses a Crossley in the field. The Sovereign's sister, Queen Maud of Norway, recently gave her son, Crown Prince Olaf, a U. S. Marmon sedan (purchased in London) for a wedding present...
...such moments policemen should be calm. One of the Pons policemen, said to be a relative of Emile Combes, lost his head utterly. Drawing his revolver he trained it on the clerical iconoclast with the sledge hammer, pulled trigger, shot the youth dead. Cooler policemen rounded up the tattered mob men and then discovered to their horror that they were disguised Royalist followers of famed Leon Daudet, son of the great novelist Alphonse Daudet, stubborn and wrongheaded champion of Roman Catholicism and the Royal House of France. The Pope has excommunicated Leon Daudet and his followers (TIME, April 9). Their...
After uttering these words, Sculptor Epstein, iconoclast, inconoplast, famed for "Rima," a bird sculpture* in honor of famed Naturalist W. H. Hudson, boarded a boat for the U. S., where, it is rumored, he intends to live. On his arrival, he planned to survey an exhibition in which appears his Madonna and Child (my greatest sculpture and my best"); then he will go to Buffalo, "where they have a lively interest...
...Return From Jerusalem. At 28 he turned manager and introduced the plays of George Bernard Shaw to the U. S. He acted in Candida, Arms and the Man, The Man of Destiny. His work was not great art. It was very interesting. Playwright Shaw seemed then an outrageous iconoclast, Actor Daly, his mouthpiece, a daring pioneer. When Mr. Shaw became a vogue, Arnold Daly lost some of his importance, as the introducer on the speaker's platform is obliterated by the lecturer who gets up to speak. He had some failures. He needed money (he had always spent copiously...