Word: idolator
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With a Hoe. Ambrose Bierce once told Edwin Markham that The Man with the Hoe would one day kill him. Instead the poem made Poet Markham $250,000 before he died (of natural causes) at 87. It also made him the idol of a small army of would-be biographers who have besieged Son Virgil Markham, a mystery writer, for the privilege of writing the poet's life. Each claimed that Poet Markham had authorized him to write his official biography...
...Near East and if Turkey is forced to take sides-if, for example, Adolf Hitler wants a Turkish road to the East. Then the United Nations can only hope that Turkey's statesmen will bear in mind the supposed last words of their old friend and idol, Kamâl Atat...
Fifty-seven-year-old Lionel Atwill, oldtime matinee idol, was indicted for perjury by a Los Angeles grand jury reopening a year-old investigation of allegedly gamy gambols at Atwill's home. He pleaded not guilty and faced trial...
...Comedian Will Fyffe, Scottish music-hall idol and Buckingham Palace favorite, who has sung prodigiously to British military forces—Commander of the British Empire...
...based on the tune of the famed British patriotic song of the same name), dedicated to the British by Wagner in 1837, and gave it the musical works. By way of introducing it to his audience, Dr. Rodzinski said he doubted that the Nazis remembered the existence of their idol's opus...