Word: idolizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Once the idol of labor, he found himself under heavy fire this summer from the C.I.O.-P.A.C. and from the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. His independence and disdain of party lines caused at least one section of his party, the Yellowstone County Democratic Central Committee, to repudiate onetime New Dealer Wheeler as a "party renegade" (though his good friend Harry Truman had tried to give him a hand). The veterans of the war he had tried to ignore campaigned ardently against...
Anne Sullivan, obviously, possessed the good teacher's infinite patience, tolerance of repeated failure, and contagious enthusiasm. Woodrow Wilson, described as Princeton's "matinee-idol" professor of politics, had only the enthusiasm. Though he is included as a "great teacher," the former student who describes him writes that pupils were inspired by Wilson's intellect but repelled by his intellectuality. Because he knew all the answers, he froze most of his listeners...
...your picture of Frankie with Jo Davidson [TIME, April 22]. You of course selected the worst picture you could find of him so you could get off your quip: "Sinatra and his big bow tie . . . didn't look half so much like a heart-leaping popular idol as 63-year-old Davidson and his little one." I was not amused...
...year since V-E day not a single entertainer, other than a D.P., had put on his act in any of the 333 D.P. camps. Last week the Yiddish theater's Molly Picon, saucer-eyed "idol of the East Side," and Jacob Kalich, her husband, the "Ziegfeld of Second Avenue," sailed from Manhattan for Europe to change all that...
Died. Lionel Atwill, 61, oldtime London and Broadway matinee idol (specialties: Shaw, Ibsen, Pinero) who went to Hollywood (specialty: Grade B horror films) and liked it; of pneumonia; in Hollywood...