Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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What a pity it is that we cannot learn to be a little more unassuming, a little more willing to share the limelight with a worthy partner, to subordinate our selves to the Cause. The individual soldiers are not to be blamed. The fault lies deeper yet. It is with the American public at home who insist upon regarding war as a glorious sport at which our athletes are in nature bound to win. Parade after parade, motion pictures, books, and pamphlets confirm it. Our newspapers describe in four-inch headlines of alternated red and black how five "Yanks" have...
...team. They plodded along day after day with scant encouragement, and when Snow and Church left they kept on without them. On Saturday they met their crucial test and did better than anyone expected. These men are not getting insignia, they are now dropping out of even the scant limelight focused on them. Yet as they go the CRIMSON wants to congratulate them: they never had the chance to meet Yale before a crowd of 50,000, but when the next. Yale game comes we only hope that the eleven men representing the University are built of the same stuff...
...Yale athletics for at least a short time in event of war, it is planned to make this interruption only temporary. There will probably be a resumption of athletics when matters have somewhat readjusted themselves. The participants, however, would probably be men who at present are not in the limelight in athletic affairs...
...sport, and of all life; it points to a negligence which becomes criminal when it allows young girls and young men who are to become leaders when of age to start their careers by publicly proclaiming that they approve of vice and immorality being shoved forward into the limelight to be seen at $25 a table...
Phillip W. Thayer in "A Transfigured Julia" gleefully hits off the capricious changes of fashion in girls: "Lissome Julia anatomically slight," "Robust Julia, playing golf and swimming harder," Suffrage Julia "prances in the [poet's] limelight." Witter Bynner is not up to his poetic form in "Though Wisdom Dies." Wisdom is a theme which cannot be completely developed in two short stanzas nor can imagination be "uncurled small as forget-me-nots." The characteristics of the verse of this number are cleverness, insight, a sure, light touch, and a sense of the sober humor of the contrasts of life...