Word: idolized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next year. Newsmen were quick to interpret Governor Pinchot's outburst as an opening sound off for the Republican nomination against President Hoover. Recalled was their long personal antagonism which culminated fortnight ago when President Hoover spoke alone at Valley Forge while Governor Pinchot was memorializing his old idol Theodore Roosevelt at his Oyster Bay tomb. While nobody seriously expected Mr. Pinchot to muster 10% of the delegates to the national convention, he became an anti-Hoover symbol around whom disgruntled Republicans could rally. Last week Nebraska's glum old Senator Norris remarked : "Pinchot would make an excellent...
...life is langourous if slightly boring, where there is time for tea between questionings, and where the victim is smothered and the body laid comfortably in a sheriff's flower patch. In "The Westminster Mystery", the reader is caught in the mad rush of modern life. A Hollywood cinema idol is slain and his death becomes the cue for a grisly set of suicides and murder...
Died. Robert Edeson, 62, stage and cinema actor, oldtime matinee idol (Soldiers of Fortune, The Little Minister, Strongheart); in Hollywood, Calif...
Udet. Captains Ernst Udet and Gunther Plueschow shared the honor of being Germany's foremost airmen. Last month Capt. Plueschow died in a crash in South America (TIME, Feb. 9). Last week Germany came very close to losing her other idol. Having completed a motion picture job in Tanganyika, Africa, Capt. Udet headed back to Europe. Approaching Khartoum he was forced down in the miasmal Sudanese swamps. Luck was with him; he found and made a landing on one of the swamps' few patches of hard ground. There, days later, Capt. Campbell Black found him, was able to land beside...
...story isn't exciting or unusual, but the picture is immensely entertaining. You will enjoy the tale of the doctor who doesn't collect jades, but is collected by them. On the stage is Borace Heidt, the college idol of the middle classes and the hero of the sales girls, leading his band through some tricks. His music however, is altogether good...