Word: idolizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gifted with an unusual ability for making friends and with one of the keenest minds in the country, Frankfurter is the idol of literally thousands of men who pass through the portals of the Harvard Law School. His ideas are notoriously liberal, his stimulating quality as a teacher in a small group unrivalled. He knows an extraordinary number of his students by their first names and in turn is known as "Felix" to his group of ardent disciples. With many of his former students he keeps in touch after graduation by means of a voluminous correspondence...
...nation from 1913 to 1921. Ten years after Thomas Woodrow Wilson's death, twelve years after he had been taken from the White House dying from heartbreak and other diseases, Woodrow Wilson Clubs foregathered in 124 U. S. towns and cities to celebrate the 77th anniversary of their idol's birth...
...match with Jimmy Caras in no condition to play. Apparently drunk, he loudly protested that Caras had shoved rather than shot the cue ball in making one point. The referee waved Greenleaf away. When he continued to argue the referee disqualified him. Next day Greenleaf fans learned their idol had filed suit for divorce from his wife, a Eurasian vaudeville singer who calls herself Princess Nai Tai Ta. When they were first married eight years ago Mrs. Greenleaf took a lively interest in her husband's work, wore a brown en semble at his games for luck. At exhibition...
Last year, as acting Mayor for 16 weeks after James John Walker's flight, clean-cut, grinning little Joseph Vincent McKee was the idol, the White Hope of thousands of New Yorkers who mortally hate & fear the yoke of Tammany. He had striven for municipal economies. Although he prided himself on his Democratic regularity, in Board of Estimate meetings he did not seem afraid to swap punches with Tammany. When bumbling John Patrick O'Brien was propped up in the special Mayoral election last November by Tammany, many a citizen was puzzled at Mr. McKee's unwillingness...
...wings of a theatre hut in a cinema studio where James Cagney is the dance director, Joan Blondell his affectionate secretary, Ruby Keeler his star tap-dancer, Dick Powell his best juvenile, Guy Kibbee his fenag-ling partner. Philip Faversham, son of famed William Faversham who was a matinee idol 30 years ago, has a bit, his second cinema part, as a frightened hoofer. The developments leading up to the dances and the NRA take too long and the line of rehearsing dancers which is their unvarying background grows monotonous; otherwise Footlight Parade is a good sample of its type...