Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since then he has lived very quietly. Neither on his own account nor on that of his father was he ever willing to go into the limelight. Occasionally he has put in a word when he thought his father's reputation was being misstated in print or his figure was being malformed in sculpture, but he never entered into controversy. His last public appearance was at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial by President Harding. Even then he declined to be a guest of honor. So whether he is at his summer home at Manchester...
...dismissed as signifying nothing in particular to U. S. business in general except, perhaps, that a note of caution has been sounded in the stock market regarding the future of the motor industry. Meanwhile the securities of other industries, for the time being crowded out of the limelight by the sensational motor shares, revealed new elements of strength...
From a Brown standpoint the best feature of the game was the work of Jones, the new fullback. His linebucking ability was noticeable, and he shared the limelight with Dixon and Keefer, the brilliant Bruin halfbacks. Mishel kicked six goals after touchdown out of seven chances...
Although the World Series and the French War Debt have sent evolution, Dr. Scopes, and the now-famous "Monkeyville" from the limelight in the popular imagination into the shades of oblivion, an echo of last summer's controversy will be heard here Thursday night when Dr. John Roach Straton will speak at the Phillips Brooks House on "The Battle Over the Bible." The Scopes case and the publicity which it received in the American press are expected to play a large part in Dr. Straton's presentation...
...when the first fall practice beguns until after Thanksgiving, unless one is a mental hermit. The thousands of universities and colleges between the two oceans put forth elevens that range the country fighting for national recognition. The papers play up their prowess. Individual players, little colleges, pop into the limelight overnight. And over all and through all blow the tart autumn breezes, whipping up the flames in the follage, and in the girls cheeks, and filling the heart of man with a desire for heroism. To go to college and play football has the same attraction now for the boys...