Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representative Albert Johnson of Washington is sponsor to the new immigration bill (TIME, Feb. 25) shortly to be considered in Congress. As such, his importance gives him considerable publicity. But on Jan. 1, 1924, his bill had not yet emerged from his committee into the limelight of discussion...
...Mark's is reputed to have one of the best hockey teams among the Massachusetts preparatory schools. A three to one victory over the Milton Academy early in the season brought the schoolboys into the limelight, but the sextet has not proven invincible, having lost to Kent School, 2-0, on January...
...satisfaction of the natives at least to the satisfaction of the War Department. Nevertheless, a Republican insurgent, Representative Frear of Wisconsin, proposed an inquiry into the General's administration (TIME, Dec. 31). The result was to bring not General Wood, but his two sons into the limelight...
...prime center of interest. He issued in printed form his controversial sermon of the week previous (TIME, Dec. 24) and in an appendix he charged the Bishops with being "unscholarly men, whose administrative duties gave them little time for study." Dr. Parks said he had shunned the limelight of publicity all his life. "Physically and spiritually it hurts my eyes." He received promptly the confidence of his vestry and the majority of his congregation. It is generally admitted both by the conservatives and liberals who heard Dr. Parks' sermon that he did not personally deny the virgin birth...
...British politics." Certainly he has been successful, popular and practical. He is best remembered for his War Service Bill of 1916, which produced the Derby Recruits, and as British Ambassador to France from 1918 to 1920, which office he resigned because he was "tired of being in the limelight...