Word: idol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Order of Knighthood, which for centuries furnished the brain and spirit and sinew to European armies . . . to succor the weak and to maintain the right amidst the horrors of the Dark Ages . . . humbleness in victory, stoicism in hardship, patience in defeat . . . 'a gentleman and a soldier.' " His idol is not Abraham Lincoln, who committed the gauchcrie of calling 75,000 men for three months to fight a war which took two and a half million men four years, but Washington, who "demanded for the future of this Democracy that her citizens be organized and trained in arms." A trifle sardonic...
...gross business for eyebrow innuendo. For the over-dramatic, Mr. Rathbone, in the tutor's role, was the only possible offender. It was naturally as difficult for him to disclose his smouldering fires to the audience as it was for him to do so to his idol. In his scenes with Miss La Gallienne his passion verged very closely on the conventional; she never fell to such, but was always a marvel of restraint--and truth...
...very virtue which was the cause of his phenomenal rise from a newsboy in two streets of Minneapolis to President of three of our largest universities was the cause of his death. Even his tremendous athletic frame could not stand the strains he placed upon it. Work was his idol, his mettle, and finally his master...
...Packard Jr. '20, instructor in public speaking at the University, will represent Dickens himself, who at the time was an alert, handsome young man of '29. Still on the threshold of his fame, he was already the idol of England and the envy of America. To do him honor, Boston's most distinguished citizens attended the dinner, as they will again next Saturday through their impersonators...
...Shaw and Wells (who does not like Karl Marx's beard) think we made an idol of Marx. They forget that the teachings of Marx have conquered a sixth part of the world, and disregard the probability that the masses will eventually take over world power, cutting off many ruling heads...