Word: idol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this furor, a swart, mop-haired, black-toothed man in morning coat and badly-adjusted tie motored last week to the White House Executive Offices. Though he looked like a Mexican bandit, he was in fact Dr. Francisco Castillo Najera, soldier, surgeon, poet, linguist, bon vivant, art collector, idol of Geneva newshawks, statesman and diplomat. Inside the office he found President Roosevelt smilingly erect, heard the State Department's sleek Chief of Protocol James Clement ("Jimmy") Dunn intone: "The Mexican Ambassador...
...Cotman, to name a few others. One must remember that competence is almost a pejorative term in criticism, if connotes the damnation of faint praise. Turner was once one of the gods of Fry's idolatry, so his remarks here, though just to this reviewer, may seem to some idol-demolition. Fry recovers, however, from any suggestion of mere pique, with his laudation of Constable: "Constable, like Gainsborough, belongs to the great European tradition of design." We are thus reminded that the whole aim of Fry's life was to build up an artistic tradition n England...
Francis Lederer is the first matinee idol in years who seems able to delight both sexes and who possesses genuine histrionic talent. Charles Ruggles and Mary Boland again prove their right to the title of Hollywood's champion comedy pair and Joan Bennet is rapidly adding a screen presence to her considerable charms...
...political lights as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt at Albany he is wholly out of place, yet thoroughly successful. He has the whole hearted support not only of Messrs. Smith and Roosevelt but of a vast section of the New York Press. He is not the public idol Al Smith was, for in public appear ance he is a conservative little man. Not handshaking, not backslapping, not silver-tongued oratory, not radical promises, are his. He lacks nearly all the tools of the political trade but his State trusts him as a decent, well-behaved, hard-working executive...
...raised by junior farmers), best steer, best herd (of three), best carlot, best get-of-sire (three by the same bull), best carcass. Anguses took a total of ten top carcass prizes in both light and heavy classes. Named Grand Champion Steer?foremost prize of the show?was Campus Idol, a black raised on Iowa State College's farm, whence had come, in former years, four other Grand Champions. Two days later Campus Idol was prodded out of the Temple's doors, auctioned off to Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. at $3 for each & every one of its 1,140 pounds?...