Word: idol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fallen but still the idol of France is Georges Carpentier. At an American Legion benefit the crowded Crique de Paris rose to shout their greeting. The ovation lasted through his sparring match and until the dressing room had closed its door upon him. Battling Siki, who knocked out Carpentier for the world's light-heavyweight championship on September 24, entered the same ring amid hoots and hisses...
...Yale, due to its conspicuous position, has passed up a perfectly good idol. Perhaps mobile bulldogs are more in favor than the stationary, stoical variety...
...whose mail is freighted with scented trifles. Among the young hearts fluttered by his brown wig and moustache is the adolescent ward of an old schoolmate of his. The latter, a rotund provincial, conceives a plan to break her of her attachment. Let her, thinks he, but see her idol as he is, gray-haired and middleaged, and she will march out of the dressing-room in disgust...
...curious instance of that quality on the musical stage is Benny Leonard, champion boxer turned matinee idol, in the Winter Garden. It is not only the physique which he so delights in displaying, not alone the slapstick ingenuities of his scenes. It is the curious quality of personal magnetism shooting across the footlights into the hearts of every fluttering little gum-chewer in the audience...
...reader of "Eight More Harvard Poets" will find in the volume an epitome of this general chaos. He will find that on generalization about the work of these eight men is possible. Each one of them is worshipping his own god or his own idol; and obviously the Eight do not make a harmonious congregation. This is of course, as it should be: one is glad to note that there is apparently no "Harvard School" of poetry...