Word: idolator
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...rummaging through some old personal papers and other documents, he and a collaborator had reconstructed an original screenplay missing since 1923, when its author sent it to Paramount studios. It was called I Have Just Begun to Fight, a stirring film biography of Admiral John Paul Jones, a lifelong idol of the scenarist, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who wrote it when Assistant Secretary of the Navy...
...Freddy Deline, a onetime acrobat and now an aging matinee idol who hopes to squeeze some Diss money out of Katie to back his new show...
...Nasser's first attempt to clip Naguib's wings eight weeks ago, he had ordered him placed under house arrest. Such arbitrary treatment of a man built up as the public's idol sent hundreds of thousands swarming into the streets of Cairo to protest. Surprised, Nasser put Naguib back in office and settled back to await a more propitious moment...
...Challenge. That did it. With a flick of his dress gloves, France's first soldier was challenging the authority and assaulting the integrity of France's civilian leaders. The Cabinet could not treat the challenge lightly. Marshal Juin is France's military hero, an idol of its officer corps...
...tramped through a jungle full of screaming parrots to a steep slope called Cerro del Sapo (Toad Hill). Overlooking the blue Pacific was a second slab with two Picasso-like figures carved on it. Locally called Los Reyes (The Kings), the stone is still revered as a miracle-working idol. The people of the vicinity make pilgrimages to it to pray for rain, and the carvings show traces of wax from their votive candles. Near it is another carved stone, badly eroded, whose local name is "The Queen...