Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...millions of our countrymen and American youth our beloved Lindy remains No. 1 Hero, who, by his modesty and good sense, his refusal to capitalize his fame, his shunning of publicity rather than ever seeking to bask in the limelight, is a model that many of our public men might well pattern after...
...much-touted but withal mysterious influence with the Roosevelt Administration has been of the same indirect sort as his influence on the law. While other professors have snatched eagerly at the opportunity to occupy prominent posts in the government. Frankfurter has consistently resisted efforts to drag him into the limelight. If rumor be true, he turned down the Attorney-Generalship. In any case he was offered and declined the post of Solicitor General and several other legal offices connected with the new administrative agencies in Washington, positions whose incumbents regularly take the spotlight from cabinet members...
Next day the pressure of the Press drew a statement from Dr. Dandy, who, like every reputable physician, hates to have his private practice dragged out into the limelight. Said Dr. Dandy: "The condition is dangerous and not uncommon, but is not necessarily immediately fatal. There is a continual flow of spinal fluid into the brain cavity, and hydrocephalus is caused when there is an obstruction, bringing about a backing up of the fluid in the brain cavity. We will have to operate to form a by-pass to allow resumption of the free flow of the fluid. Such...
...year 1933, in departing into unlamented oblivion, has taken along in its wake a handsome company of notables. The old time elect, the salt of the earth the repositories of 100 per cent Americanism, have departed from the limelight and left only unsavory memories and economic chaos beyond anything Alice might have encountered in Wonderland...
Last week President Roosevelt plucked Mr. Walker back into the limelight by making him Acting Executive Director of the National Emergency Council. To outsiders this looked like a new title...