Word: kliegs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee hauled in a real, live, big-time speculator and put him under its klieg lights. Who was he? None other than Edwin Wendell Pauley, the rich California oilman, the moneybags of the Democratic National Committee, great & good friend of Harry Truman...
Lavery called the un-American Committee poorly defined, poorly led, and poorly run, Klieg lights and eight-inch headlines are no way to investigate, he said. "Personalties, not the films, were prosecuted...
...Friendship Train was only a klieg-lighted symbol of year-round generosity. Since January, individual U.S. citizens have been voluntarily giving more than $12 million a month for European relief through private agencies. Out of human sympathy, plain Americans were giving plenty of evidence that their hearts were as big as their purses...
...bald pate glistening in the hot glare of the klieg lights, New Jersey's ruddy Representative J. (for John) Parnell Thomas squinted through the clutter of newsreel cameras and microphones. Beyond the press tables, 391 spectators filled the big, gloomy caucus room to capacity. Outside, hundreds more strained against a cordon of Capitol Hill policemen...
...specially chartered DC-45, had come manufacturers and models to show Paris the spring styles of San Francisco's up-&-coming clothing industry. The Californians hedged a plush runway with 1,600 Ibs. of chrysanthemums ("blooming three days ago in California"), set up a blinding battery of klieg lights, and surrounded the show with enough hoopla to make the French take notice...