Word: idol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reeking restaurants, in crowded tenement rooms she listened to the voices of revolution. Soon she joined in. She made many friends. Johann Most, fiery anarchist editor, became her idol. She had lovers?Alexander Berkman, her lifelong comrade and "Fedya." She began to study labor history and improve her English. She made speeches. It was not long before radicals all over the U. S. knew Emma Goldman; the police knew...
Loew's Orpheum--Greta Garbo teams up with popular film gangster and screen idol Clark Gable, to produce picture with demure title "Susan Lenox...
...NATIONAL IDOL. By 1918 his fan mail (actual) was enormous. 'Would it be terribly unprofessional to send him this letter so he can know that a Virginia lassie has fallen for his clear honest eyes, his fine brow and tender mouth? Tell him I am 19 and unattached and awfully interested.' That was a typical plea-of thousands...
Ingeniously the clothing trade, usually identified with Babbitry, is glorified by sophisticated treatment. An example is the story of the rise & fall of starched collars as reflected in the glorious reign and ignominious fate of the Arrow Collar Man -"a national idol who never lived." A chart showing the tumble of starched collar sales from 1919 (the advent of the soft shirt) is surrounded by colored reproductions of Artist Joseph Christian Leyen-decker's unbelievably handsome creation at critical stages of his career from the "merry Oldsmobiling" days of 1907 to the present. Captions tell the story...
Bitterly he flayed "this cynical, scoffing self-willed generation that bows down before the idol of profit and production, that knows not God and prides itself in this ignorance; . . . its penitentiaries, enlarged and yet overcrowded; juvenile crime . . . divorce, with states like Nevada and Arkansas feverishly competing in the effort to make divorce easier, quicker and cheaper; apostles of free love and loose moral leaders . . . quicksand of companionate marriage, childless families . . . collapse of family felicity; our business world with its fraud and connivance . . . professional impurity . . . commercialized vice...