Word: idol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Times: "Mayor Hylan was originally a Yellow Hero created by the Yellow Press. He has openly appealed to the basest motives. But now the idol goes down together with its builder in political ruin. New York may breathe more easily this morning. It has got rid of a vulgar and debasing tyranny...
Last week with an accompanying fanfare Feldmarschall August von Mackensen*, monarchist War idol, also in full uniform, reviewed the German Reichswehr as they maneuvered in "East Prussian war games," just without the Polish border...
...taken serious offense at Mr. Minnigerode's chats about Burr and his friends, but when he came to delineating Rachel Jackson, the wife of a President of the U. S. and an idol of the state of Tennessee, he was guilty of lèse-majest?...
...news from Germany was that Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg, the idol of the German Nation, had, after previously refusing (TIME, Apr. 13), accepted the pro-Monarchist nomination for the Presidency of the German Republic. Thereafter, the German political pot began to boil...
...because lumber freights were so high. It stood for the ingenious skipper who, stranded in the Philippines without a return cargo, waded ashore to a virgin island, found copra?the beginning of an industry that is now worth $22,000,000 annually. It stood for Captain Dollar ?the idol of China's merchants, who, in half a century, never caused him a single "bad debt." It stood for the commissionless Ambassador Dollar who pacified the Mikado in person. Many freighters now fly that sign?and seven? passenger boats...