Word: idol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale and emerged a campus idol. Yale done, he went to Harvard, studied harder than he had ever previously found necessary and emerged a sufficiently learned lawyer. Thence to his native Cleveland where he lived as if no other city existed. He had by this time married Louise Harkness (Standard Oil heiress) who has borne him three daughters. A clerk in the famed law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, he argued small jury cases in court as intensely as if they had been national issues. With great personal enthusiasm he invested in various local enterprises and took with grave responsibility...
...surgeon and solid citizen, but honeymooning Tony still kept her fancy. Finally she took a chance on Nick, but stipulated a platonic union until she had laid Tony's ghost. When Tony and Pen came back from their long honeymoon abroad Julie found she could face her former idol without batting an eye; more, that Husband Nick was the man for her. And just then, of course, it was discovered Julie was really the long-lost Barnes heiress: her virtue was rewarded a thousandfold...
...Fuess categorically denies it. Webster had a slow but inexhaustible mind, no reputation as a wit, no interest in the arts. He reread Robinson Crusoe every year. When he spoke extemporaneously he often groped for the right word, would not be happy till he got it. Fuess makes no idol of Webster, but his biography will honor Webster's memory. "Even those biographers who have taken a malicious joy in exposing the blemishes on his character have been overawed by his splendor. In all American history there has been no statesman who, in manner and bearing, appeared so noble...
BRYAN STINSON, tramp athlete and professional football player, through the generosity of an alumnus is brought to Cheltenham University to "get an education." He naturally becomes the football star of the college, receives all the class offices, is the idol of sorority girls, and is admired by everyone as being a "real man." After he has given his all for his college in the final game of his senior year the story of his professionalism leaks out but is successfully covered up. Stinson, however, confesses later that he is a professional, resigns from his college responsibilities...
...your issue of Nov. 10 on p. 19 you put New Mexico's red-headed senator and Democratic idol, Sam G. Bratton, among the list of re-elected Republican Senators. Please correct this before the entire Democracy of the Sunshine State begins firing criticisms at you. Although usually correct, your publication is far from right in this instance. Senator Bratton has been the recognized leader of the Democratic party in New Mexico for six years...