Word: idol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difference between the "idol of fandom" and the man who is hissed out of a ring is entirely a matter of personality. Writers have called it "color", that intangible quality that makes a Cobb or a Ruth or a Dempsey. If a man possesses it, college education will iron it out of him. The Bachelor or Arts who hears a symphony of boos when he steps into a ring would hear the anvil chorus if he had never gone to college. It is a gift, no more and no less. And to him that hath shall be given...
...began teaching his system of salvation which would deliver all living beings from sin and suffering. He taught that men should save themselves by meditation and by the practice of a high code of morality, and that they should not rely upon any divinities. He condemned the worship of idols as severely as the offering of sacrifices, but after his death those practices crept into the order he himself founded. Present day Buddhists are practically all idol worshippers. Some of them adore representations of Shapyamuni alone, but the great majority do homage to a considerable number of saints and divinities...
...idol-God forbid...
...Reinhardt, like all great theatrical impresarios, possesses the most subtle of all talents, that of recognizing genius. It was a question of time until Moissi should become famous; at first, his Italian accent made him unpopular; then, little and ugly and sad, he became a matinee idol; at last German critics, who are to other critics as the snail is to the turtle, awarded him their approval...
Brilliantly, passionately, yet with a keen eye for historical detail, Mr. Thaddeus presents the many-sided Voltaire, the man who walked with kings; who languished in the Bastille; who was an idol of the salons; who was a liar and forger, yet who risked his shrivelled body and his immortal soul for human liberty...