Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is by no means the first time that Dr. Straton has captured the limelight by attacking VICE. When a pastor in Norfolk, Va., in 1917, he said that Norfolk was full of bawdy houses and blamed local officials. He wrote a book ($1 per copy) entitled Scarlet Sins of Norfolk, was sued for libel, was hailed before a Grand Jury where he confessed that it was all based on what "somebody" had told him. The commotion began when Dr. Straton tried in vain to get a pardon for a Baptist friend who had been convicted of boot-leggery...
Curiously enough it was not belligerent Benito Mussolini who unveiled last week the wrath-kindling Bolzano monument. The Dictator was busy in Rome averting a panic and "rotating" his Cabinet (see ITALY). Therefore the limelight at Bolzano was held by a most diminutive monarch, King Vittorio Emanuele...
Patricia Ziegfeld, daughter of famed Florenz Ziegfeld, profited last week by one of her father's excursions into the limelight. Being sued for $100,000 by Elizabeth Hines, who thought she deserved the position of leading lady in Show Boat, Mr. Ziegfeld promised his daughter a roadster if he won the case. An arbitration board awarded Elizabeth Hines $12,000 and Ziggy, counting this at least a Pyrrhic victory, bought his little girl the car that he had posted. But, little Patricia Ziegfeld will be unable to drive her roadster because she is only eleven...
...written Pen Man Shaw, asking him to do a preface for her forthcoming biography. Replied he: ''Good gracious! I'd never dare! You're a much bigger person than I. I should look like a ridiculous little busybody making a pretentious bow in your limelight. And, anyhow, what could I say of Clara Butt...
...craving for the limelight is contageous; for during the trial a pistol shot is heard outside the courtroom, and another murderous picture flashes on the front page of the morning yellow sheets. Roxie now had a rival, and not to be outdone, she further complicates her trial with the announcement that she is soon to be a mother...