Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born with a silver spoon in his mouth and educated by private tutors and when he goes fishing, being so plain and simple, he gets a cane pole and a can of worms instead of taking a trip on a million dollar yacht of a social highlight...
...chief highlight in a rather ordinary Monday session at Soldiers Field, Doctor Thorndike announced that he is rapidly putting the Varsity's injured players back on their feet and will have every one except Don Jackson and Jim Maser ready for the Brown game on Saturday...
Rembrandt, however, set out this time to paint a picture, not a portrait. He showed the company tumbling out of their clubhouse, the captain and his lieutenant in brilliant highlight, some of the others crowded into almost total shadow. The company were hopping mad. As they had already paid for the canvas, they accepted it but hung it in an anteroom of the clubhouse. From that job dated Rembrandt's decline as a fashionable portrait painter. While the company were bickering about it, Saskia, who had borne four children, sickened and died...
Professor Loeb's disquisition was the highlight among many significant reports, all of which the College will print in its Annals of Internal Medicine during the next year. Some other reports...
Another great portrait of the 15th Century mercenary (scowling as usual, in a velvet cap and gold brocaded tunic) was the highlight of a loan exhibition of Renaissance portraits at the Knoedler Galleries. By Giovanni Bellini, it is the property of Lord Duveen of Millbank. There were plenty of other masterpieces to remind the public of the treasury of Old Masters still in private hands in Manhattan. Among them: Castagno's Portrait of a Young Man, lent by J. P. Morgan; another young man, by Botticelli, lent by Clarence Hungerford Mackay; Fouquet's John, Bastard of Orleans, lent...