Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME (Oct. 3) you've gone to great lengths in quoting the loquacious Huey Long, whose profanity, and ostentation (more than anything else), has put him in the limelight but, in the sight of your most discriminating readers, is in nowise TIMEworthy...
...have fought an unending war, carried on an unceasing campaign to protect the nation. . . . Many of these battles have had to be fought in silence, without the cheers of the limelight or the encouragement of public support because the very disclosure of the forces opposed to us would have undermined the courage of the weak and induced panic in the timid. Hideous misrepresentations had to be accepted in silence. . . There has been much of tragedy but a great national victory has been achieved¯President Hoover at Des Moines...
...their gowns torn, their hats mashed down over their eyes, their shoes scuffed and muddied. In the royal box the Queen and the Prince of Wales stood up and waved excitedly as the crowd surged about the winning horse. The excitement was not simply because a colt named Limelight had just won the Jersey Stakes, but because Limelight was being led in from the track by its proud owner-King George...
...with newspapers had taught him what he could expect in the way of publicity if he were to appear in court as a defendant. It would mean taking him away from the privacy which he so much enjoys in Northampton, Mass., and subjecting him to a tremendous amount of limelight for days with constant besieging of reporters and cameramen...
...Monday experienced Washington correspondents observed "great relief" in Administration quarters when Senator Borah took the limelight once again with another of his pedigreed explosions. "I do not question, of course," said Senator Borah, "the good faith of those who are urging an embargo against Japan, but I certainly question the wisdom of their program. In my opinion, the best way to advance the cause of war between this country and Japan is to do precisely what people are urging in the way of peace...