Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yours Truly." Gene Buck, after years and years under Ziegfeld, has stepped into the limelight of production with his own show, including Leon Errol and charging $25 admission for the first night. Actor Errol is famed in the theatrical profession for the way his legs wobble when he is supposed to be drunk. His present vehicle, a gargantuan jumble full of ridiculously costumed regiments of chorines, also wobbles. The distinction, of course, is that Mr. Errol's precarious underpinning is comical, whereas the production's is not. The hero (not Actor Errol) is head of the narcotic squad...
...when most public men are only beginning to catch the limelight, when Mr. Baldwin was unknown and Mr. Bonar Law had not held office, he looks back on 30 years of romantic adventure that would provide material for a dozen normal lives which would find a place in the Dictionary of National Biography; on experiences of war in more continents than Napoleon fought in; on a library of books that would not do injustice to a life spent in literature, or journalism, lecturing, painting; on a political career more full of vicissitudes than any since that of Bolingbroke...
...There was then delay, during which the whole affair slumbered, only to be brought into the limelight again by the Senate Investigating Committee. A civil case was first tried, deciding that the lease of the Elk, Hills Reservation should be cancelled due to fraud. The case was taken to the Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed the decision, and the matter is now appendine in the Supreme Court. Later the courts refused to cancel the Teapot Dome lease...
...ability of eleven men to fuse themselves, mind and muscle, into a unit for a struggle with another group of eleven men who also strive not for personal glory, but for co-operative success. This dinner supports an entirely different thesis. It hoists the individual into the limelight and ignores the other ten men on his team to whom he knows what measure of personal achievement he has attained is largely, and often, almost wholly...
...quiet voice, has a twinkle in his greenish grey eyes. One can judge readily enough that he would not take a drink nowadays, not for any hypocritical reasons but because he would regard it as lawbreaking. In fact, he seems to be a likable sort, upright, not courting the limelight, not endowed with the graces that make for success in society?but likable. But of course this is not Andrew Volstead. Volstead is a myth. Volstead is a figure as noble as John Barleycorn is sinister, a powerful crusader, a tower of righteousness, a leader of a great cause?...