Word: idolator
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still further. The further cataclysm that gave Raeder his burning, hard-eyed religion was the dying days of the war, when the German Navy was ordered out to sea-and men mutinied. The fleet did not go out. To Raeder's grooved, naval mind, the realization that his idol had a Communist brain and no muscle was the final, hardening blow. On the June afternoon when a faithful few scuttled 74 ships of the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow, he dedicated himself again...
...White Hope of the symphony, although his name has not yet crept into the Widener stacks. The greatest factor in this meteoric rise was, of course, the great qualities of his music, but the Soviet Propaganda machine, through which he is new Russia's Composer Laureate and intellectual idol, also had a great deal to do with it. Back in '36, in his pre-fifth-symphony days, he was considered a decadent by the Commisary of Culture, and publicly reprimanded by Pravda for being a callous, shallow, "modern," who destroyed the old formal bases of art just...
...line with his views on totalitarian issues, Viereck holds a certain reverence for the great figures in American history, past and present. Carl Schurz, a German immigrant who rose to become Secretary of State under President Hayes, is his particular idol. Viereck's book is dedicated to Schurz, as proof that the same German type that is misled in Europe can become an integral part of the American national pattern if the emotional environs of the old country are removed...
General Douglas MocArthur's 43-year-old wife, Jean, and four-year-old son, Arthur, are still in the Philippines, still safe, Cordell Hull disclosed. Meantime in Washington the General's first wife, Louise Atwill, fiftyish, now the wife of ex-Matinee Idol Lionel Atwill, said she has lately been getting "hundreds of letters from hysterical people who demand to know in detail why I divorced MacArthur." Also received: newspaper queries on the color of the General's eyes and hair; a fat offer from a syndicate for his early love letters...
...enthusiastic studio publicist put it, "overcome the handicap of possessing one of the finest figures in the nation," but she is pleasantly subdued, works hard, neither sings nor dances. Mr. Mature, who occasionally slips his diction and looks as if he needs more sleep, is every inch the matinee idol (height, six-foot-two-and-a-half; weight, 198 Ib.; chest, 45 in.; waist, 33 in.). Says he: "Sometimes I can't see what the girls see in me. I'm revolting...