Word: idolizing
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...week, St. Gandhi's automobile was waylaid by an angry, hooting crowd which smashed windshield, windows and hood, hurt everyone in the car but St. Gandhi. Deeply depressed, the Mahatma planned a three-week fast as penance. It was the first recorded attack on India's slipping idol...
...upper portion of his body bare . . . there was such a criss-cross of old wounds and new ones that the Briton fled." But Belmonte is still alive. Prudent, he saved enough money to buy a ranch in Andalusia, with his Peruvian wife lives there now, a retired national idol...
Asked if his nose was insured against damage or less, the idol of a million maidens replied. "Yeah, it's insured all right Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer saw to that long ago. Do you know, they even insured it against theft. Can you feature anyone ever being able to keep my nose under cover?" queried Durante with a fetching smile...
...Bobby Jones's return to competition." True, it was his first tournament since 1930, the year of his "grand slam" in the British and U. S. Open and amateur championships. But it was much more than that. It was a chance for the game's greatest idol to show that he has not been inactive on his pedestal. He presented to the game and to all the professionals whose glory he so long monopolized, a new golfing institution and a new competition, rivaling even the U. S. Open in importance, far surpassing it in atmosphere...
...Ford of France was by no means out, but no longer would he run his two billion-franc company with the absolutism which, along with mass production methods, he borrowed from his idol, the Ford of Dearborn. Andre Citroën has what Henry Ford mortally hates & fears -bankers...