Word: idol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Schuyler said that the newspapermen who do the writing that heroes sign are known as "ghosts." But, whatever they may be called, their existence has long been common knowledge. "I wonder who writes his stuff?" gibe even mildly sophisticated U. S. citizens when a heavyweight prizefighter or a matinee idol sets down the story of his life. The "I" story is part of the modern news-exploitation system; accepted as such without particular...
Died. Robert Cochran ("Handsome Bob") Hilliard, 70, onetime (1886-1918) "matinee idol"; of heart disease and diabetes; in Manhattan. Tall, well-built, handsome, with regular features and a luxuriant mustache, he was always immaculately dressed, thrilled many a heart. He played with Lillie Langtry in 1887; toured for several years in A Fool There Was, his greatest success...
Dewey. Surely, it was a modest, a natural, a lovable, a well-pre-pared man who uttered the command : "You may fire when ready, Gridley." For seven days, the U. S. waited for authentic news of this man's victory. For 16 months, the U. S. waited for its idol to come home and receive in person his righteous adulation. Some say that his welcome was the beginning of the spectacle era in the U. S.a wood and plaster triumphal arch in Manhattan (reputed to be "a labor of love"), massed flag waving and horn blowing, loving cups, a sword...
Nungesser & Coli. More than eight days had passed since Capt. Charles Eugene Jules Marie Nungesser, idol of Paris, onetime cowpuncher in Argentina, multi-wounded War ace with platinum-patched bones, and Capt. François Coli, son of a hardy clan of seamen, with a black patch over his right eye, left the Paris airport of Le Bourget (TIME, May 16). It was barely possible that they had lost their way in the fog and were alive somewhere in the wilderness of Labrador. It was more likely that heavy ice on the wings of their plane forced them to death...
...suspect that he has substituted a psychology for its more ultimate. Indeed, he says it best himself: "The affairs of the world interest me only as they relate to the intellect--everything in relation to the intellect--everything in relation to the intellect. Bacan would call this intellect an idol. I agree, but have found none better . . . . This point of view is false, since it separates the mind from all other activities; out this obstruction and falsification are inevitable; every point of view is false...