Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accounts of the President's conference with his top diplomat. Similarly, the President's press conference was really canceled because he needed time to read reports. And Secretary Woodring had gone to the station for no reason more pressing than courtesy to his chief and love of limelight...
...damned old fool." His profound thought before he answered a question made people look upon him as a thinker, until they discovered that it took him as long to answer a simple question as a difficult one. Governor of California when the Central Pacific was started, Stanford loved the limelight as much as Huntington hated it, loved display, testimonials, speeches, luxury, built so many homes and farms that his vast estate was finally in danger. He planned Stanford University as a memorial for his son, died soon after it opened, with his affairs in such bad shape that it barely...
...Some 2,500 students signed an unsuccessful petition for a referendum to recall the board of control. And last week white-haired, conservative Dean George Clarke Sellery, who was Wisconsin's interim acting president after Glenn Frank's ouster last year, pushed the university into the national limelight again by charging that racial bigotry had reared its head on Wisconsin's campus. Said he: "When an effort to put [the Cardinal] into the hands of a different group for next year is supported by an appeal to race prejudice, I am in arms...
Yardlings in Limelight...
...Moorman is qualified to judge Charlie Hutter's accomplishments, and in so doing he has well expressed the enthusiastic opinion of the majority of the college. Any honors which may be showered on the swimming captain, who with ability and spirit helped to lift his sport into the limelight, are deserved. It is to be hoped that the swimming banquet tonight will be a gala affair for Hutter, Coach Ulcu, and the whole of a great team...