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Mrs. Morrison had been a hero-worshiper since 1918, when she and other students invited Frost to lecture at Bryn Mawr.

From Time Magazine Archive

That reckons without Nobody, who turns out to be not just a hero-worshiper but perhaps the first gunfighter groupie.

From Time Magazine Archive

Although, with typical exuberance, he calls his subject "a genius among the great men of his era," he is no hero-worshiper where Saint-Ex's flying is concerned.

From Time Magazine Archive

The portraits of Roosevelt are those of a hero-worshiper, and some of them are as devastating as anything his enemies ever composed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every best man and woman is at heart a hero-worshiper.

From A Hero and Some Other Folks by Quayle, William A. (William Alfred)