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Brilliantly, passionately, yet with a keen eye for historical detail, Mr. Thaddeus presents the many-sided Voltaire, the man who walked with kings; who languished in the Bastille; who was an idol of the salons; who was a liar and forger, yet who risked his shrivelled body and his immortal soul for human liberty...
...Andrew Jackson. Old Hickory was beaten the first time he ran but lived to be twice victorious. If Smith runs much ahead of Cox and Davis he need not despair of doing the same. He is younger now than Jackson was the first time he ran and equally the idol of his followers. The Digest poll, when read aright, falls far short of showing that Smith will not be president of the United States...
...midnight he meets her in the two-seater, serves her supper at the blazing hearth, listens to her footlight triumphs. In short, he is so thoroughbred that she succumbs to the illicit blandishments of the leading man in her show. Fond Michael, suddenly informed, spoils the matinée idol's beauty with a black eye and bloody nose. The wife repents...
MEXICO "Earthquake! Earthquake!" "Mexico's Idol of Flesh and Blood" was boldly denounced and defied before the Mexican Congress last week by fiery spellbinder and factional leader Senor Antonio Soto y Gama. Though he dared not name "Mexico's Idol," the denouncer clearly meant bullnecked, heavy-jowled President Plutarco Elias Calles. When Senor Calles' term expires, in December, it is understood that he will become the Leader ("Boss") of the new "Grand National Revolutionary Party." This will reunite the national majority once dominated by the late, assassinated President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30); and therefore factional...
...Again human victims have been offered as a sacrifice to the greedy idol of a new religion, the religion of speed, which fascinates our youth to the extent often of replacing in their souls their ancient religion...