Word: idol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confidence of U. 3. regulars in the Philippines reads like a tale of the Round Table. The General went at once himself where the germs were thickest, the bolos sharpest. For 18 months he was almost daily in peril of life. When he finished, he was the idol of his troops, the deadliest chieftains were captured or dead, the Moros for the first time in history were living at peace with themselves and others, under the aegis of the Great White Sultan, which title they bestowed upon him with awe and affection...
...Mencken goes little further. Like all capable iconoclasts he has no better icon in his pocket to replace the smashed idol. Bertrand Russell has. And though his particular idols are those of the philosophical mind and, therefore a triple shadowed by the clouds of unattainable idealism, they are worthy gods and not small ones...
...even Premier Mussolini, is perhaps so much the idol and spoiled darling of the Italian people as Gabriele d'Annunzio. His brutally successful amours and the beauty of his poetry captivated them long ago. His capture of Fiume fired the awakening Nationalism of his countrymen to a pitch of frenzy at which he became almost deified. Last week there occurred a striking demonstration of the passionate esteem in which he is still held...
...Lenine. Famed anti-Communist fire-eater, Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks (popularly known as "Jix") declared amid laughter, in answer to a question, that the widow of famed Bolshevist idol Lenine has applied for permission to end her days in England. Said the doughty "Jix," stiffly: "Such an application would be treated on its merits, if presented...
...cells took up the liquor, courage spouted through her veins, empurpled her falcon-face. Once more her skirt began to kiss her knee from above. Once more she leapt in air?Lenglen of the rotogravure sections, idol of a nation. The girl in the cotton dress left the net for the baseline. With a cat-cunning step that seemed a little weary, a little slow, she wove from side to side, forehand, backhand, stroking hard, deftly?but not so hard, not so deftly as a moment before. Lenglen took the next three games. Wills took the seventh, another deuce game...