Word: idol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tomorrow" is an interesting account of a man who has suddenly and dramatically been brought before the public eye. It is not a work of enduring value and probably was not intended as such. The author, who, under the name of Iconoclast, accepts at least the one idol of anonymous authorship of political sketches, is very diffuse and insists on presenting his own conceptions when the reader would prefer to be given the facts and allowed to draw his own conclusions...
...Boston has an idol, it is George M. Cohan. "The Rise of Rosie Q'Reilly", "Little Nellie Kelly", and "The Song and Dance Man" have all scored heavily here within the past two years; and this week the St. James Theatre was packed to capacity on the opening night of "The Tailor Made Man", revived by the Boston Stock Company...
...idol-smashers who rejoice in pointing out that Daniel Webster was expelled form Exeter have apparently assumed that the great American public usually demands from its statesmen an intimate knowledge of past and present lore. But that such an analysis is hasty and superficial is proved rather conclusively by the history of presidential elections, in which coonskin cap, log cabin, and campaign song, to say nothing of the cider barrel, have easily overshadowed in importance the sonorous orations of far-sighted politicians...
Lord Beatty, known during the War as Admiral Sir David Beatty, apart from being a popular idol, is acknowledged a sailor of proved efficiency and immense capabilities. He is 53 years of age and married in 1901 Miss Ethel Field, daughter of Marshall Field of Chicago...
...himself, and were the living embodiment of the strange worship that attended him in his later years. They became a cult, a rite of adoration. Readers of the Nietzsche-Wagner correspondence will recall that the philosopher, for a long time the devoted friend of Wagner, broke away from his idol in large part because he was repelled by the adulation and the molasses of flattery that Wagner accepted and enjoyed from the host of sentimentalists at Baireuth...