Word: idol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nation sees in the worthy president a trembling hypocrite, who dusts off his fetish of personal liberty to aid him in regaining the right to drink, although this same idol lay untended and forgotten in the days of war when all men's minds must belong, willy-nilly, to their country. The New Republic, equally impious, destroys his hypothesis that high taxes restrict individual beneficence toward education. On all sides Doctor Butler's pet theories are bombarded with havoc. But evidently he has found a bomb-proof shelter, from which he mocks his adversaries. From the solid materials of scholarship...
...Biography. For the first time, R. L. S. is observed without prejudice. And for the first time the facts appear at last to be accessible about this strange, heroic figure. Mr. Steuart does not slur over his defects. He sets down the facts accurately but sympathetically, substitutes for the idol a man. His estimate of Stevenson's work is careful and just. He sees him as a writer not of the first rank?a master of the English language, doing perfectly things of secondary significance. But whatever his merits as an artist, as a man he stands among the heroes...
...Smith, having contributed to a two weeks' Democratic deadlock last June, is perhaps the larger figure in the public eye. In the election just past, although Coolidge carried New York by more than 800,000 votes, and the Republicans captured practically all the state offices, Al, the idol of Manhattan sidewalks, saved himself with a majority of 100,000 votes. He ran 900,000 votes ahead of Davis. His fame increased...
...Hardwick summed up his feeling toward his old teacher in a significant fashion. "I came to Harvard placing Mr. Haughton on a pedestal. He was the idol of a boy's intense hero worship, I worked three years under that idol, and I left college even a greater disciple of, not 'Mr. Haughton', but my close friend...
...getter philosophy in great draughts; Doctor Frank Crane's volumes are the best American seller in France. Even the Orient, dazzled by magnificent illusions of this wonderland of material prosperity forsakes its tradition of philosophic detachment, and its business men burn the ancestral red fire before the clay-footed idol of Efficiency...