Word: idols
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After 1920 the Times still remained loyal to its idol, and when he retired from London explained...
...first sprang at him, with back arched, on cat-like toes, Tunney fought like a gentleman. And the public was grieved that so gallant a fighter as Carpentier should come under suspicion of "playing up" his injury to win applause and sympathy. For nine rounds, the handsome, blond ring-idol of Europe had assaulted a dangerous foe, taken hard battering. In the tenth round, he had grovelled horribly on the floor, all but unconscious, then had arisen and torn into Tunney with dizzy, desperate courage, thunderously cheered by the crowd. Stretched limp in his dressing room afterwards, Carpentier assured questioners...
Then and afterwards he was the idol of the miners. In the ranks of Labor he stood next to Samuel Gompers. Governor Pinchot in dedicating the monument declared...
...audience rose, cheered, stamped, shouted, whistled, howled. They patiently endured intermediate numbers by Salmond and Zimbalist, only to burst forth again at the reappearance of the idol of two generations. Then the stage lights were lowered, just as Paddy first had them lowered in the same place early in the 90's. Then-the Schubert-Liszt Hark, Hark, the Lark, the melting melody of the 'Schubert B-flat Impromptu, and the inevitable Chopin group: Etudes, hurled like glittering lances, and a Scherzo that stung, bit and cooed seductively. Then encores-until the approach of the zero hour when...
...just completed his famous memorial statue of Farragut, now standing in Madison Square, New York, when his son, Homer, was born at Roxbury, Mass. This was in 1881, just when the great sculptor was achieving the recognition and success for which he had striven. The son was the idol of his father, posing as early as the age of 17 months for a bronze plaque. Here we find one of the earliest essays of the father in low relief, but it has all the characteristics of a masterpiece. The soft lines and curves of the baby are rendered with real...