Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morality did not exist for Napoleon: Byron only affected disregard of it. The poet's whole life, in fact, was a posture. He paraded himself before the whole of Europe, so that his life was spent upon a stage. While Shelley always sought the light, Byron sought the limelight. Disapprobation, even from the meanest of men cast him down...
...then President of Adelphi College, Brooklyn, then pacifist, then supporter of Woodrow Wilson and in his advancing age a leading member of such organizations as the World Court League, the League of Nations Union, the New York Peace Society, was lifted momentarily from his comparative obscurity into the national limelight. Endowed with a small fortune, sought out by greedy stock-salesmen, he lived in momentary fame. Senators said there was propaganda behind his plan, newspapers took votes on it and paid good money then and since for contributions from...
With the passing of football from the stage last Saturday, winter sports yesterday entered into the center of the athletic limelight. A grand total of 141 men turned out, 46 for hockey, 45 for basketball, and 40 for wrestling, all of which sports opened their season yesterday at preliminary meetings...
Stevenson's love of pose, his affectations, his theatric sense Mr. Steuart sees again in his last days in Samoa, as a sort of white chief, a lord of the manor among the admiring natives. "A bouncing egotist who loves the limelight as a beachcomber loves rum," said his neighbors...
...Europe and much beloved by the Viennese whom he assisted financially on sundry and odd occasions. He was also a patron of the arts and for some time supported the famed producer Max Reinhardt, for whom he built a theatre. So fond was he of appearing in the public limelight that he lived with all the pomp and ceremony of royalty, even traveling in the Kaiser Karl's private parlor car, which he bought...