Word: idolator
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government must conquer a superstition, smash a major industry. The superstition dates centuries before Cortés. This fall as in hundreds of years past, many a peon still trudged miles up into the mountains to participate in a bibulous ritual on the site where Ome Tochtli's idol once stood. As an industry, pulque employes a million and a half persons, covers a million acres of land...
...concluded: "I have no personal military ambitions whatsoever. ..." "Bataan Speaking." Douglas MacArthur is a remote, proud man. After Bataan he became the idol of two countries -the U.S. and Australia. Admirers in the U.S. talked of him loudly as a candidate for President. The very least they expected was that he would be given overall command of the Pacific war. MacArthur, the country's best known four-star general, expected that too. With his sense of drama he saw himself marching back through the Philippines. People who telephoned his headquarters in Australia were startled by the greeting: "Hello, Bataan...
This pig-faced idol of 30,000 trusting Alaouites is sated with life's delights. Huge rolls of fat clutter his chin, hump his neck, swirl around his middle. He has beady, sweaty brown eyes, but, by a quirk of nature, they are spaced nicely apart, giving him an off-center approach to humanness. He lacks all the usual Arab graces, makes up for them in a futile, ostentatious show of wealth. He no longer wears the peasant costume he used when playing the role of latter-day god, appears instead in a dirty white silk suit, two-toned...
Inventing hobbies of great men is an other O'Nolan pastime. Ardent biographers of the composer Handel were surprised to learn that their idol was such a close student of Parisian slang that he had written an authoritative work on the subject: Handel's L' Argot...
...Pola called herself Negri after Italian Poetess Ada Negri, a girlhood idol...