Word: idol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long that when he finally did she was ungrateful and obviously dying. But she lived long enough to suspect Rossetti often of unfaithfulness, to bear him a still-born child, and to die at last of an overdose of laudanum. Safely dead, she became again his idol; he buried with her the only copy of his poems...
What happens thereafter is a gallant defense of all the cinematic wall-mottoes which have grown dusty since the talkies. Jack Daugherty learns to like milking cows. He becomes the idol of the orphans, falls in love with pure, sweet Peggy. When the owners of the farm mortgage threaten to foreclose, he risks his freedom by going to the city to fight a touring heavyweight champion. He loses but earns the necessary funds. The Manhattan detective who recognizes him at the ringside is so touched by Jimmy Dolan's moral rehabilitation that, when the fight is over, he neglects...
...very end. Upstairs the sedate refreshment room had been transformed into a beer garden with a gambling salon leading off it. Next winter in that refreshment room, grey-haired, flat-faced Emil Katz will go on serving sandwiches and coffee as he has done since the days when his idol, Anton Seidl, was conducting at the Metropolitan. Even with the $300,000 raised, the season will be shorter than it has been for 31 years. It will not open until the night after Christmas when, experience has taught the directors, business always starts running high. In the 14 weeks...
Henry George, his early idol. Said he of the Metropolitan Opera show: "I'm afraid I bungled...
...quite confident that if the writer of the said article would know the unselfish character of His Imperial Majesty and his devotion for the welfare and progress of Persia, which placed him as an idol before his countrymen, he certainly would not end his article using the very ambiguous term which will never find the approval of the Persian nation standing so closely in friendship with...