Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...casual observer, Chief Boston will seldom be in the limelight. He never carries the ball from scrimmage, handling it only for a second in the more complicated plays. Few gains, however, will be made without his effective blocking. Nine times out of ten when long runs are made he will be seen somewhere on the line of march sitting on one or more would-be tacklers
...given a gold card which made him a life member of the Klan and how he addressed a Birmingham Klorero on Sept. 2, 1926, sharing a rostrum with the Klan's Imperial Wizard, onetime Dentist Hiram Wesley Evans. Last week, Dr. Evans, enjoying a new appearance in the limelight, repeated that Klan rolls were secret but Justice Black was not currently a member...
...daughter Carmencita, who is two years younger than Britain's Princess Elizabeth. Nine months ago the Bureau for Press & Propaganda issued an appeal signed by Dona Carmencita to all other nine-year-olds to pray for peace and papa's victory. Beyond that she has avoided the limelight. Dona Carmen Polo de Franco is patron of the Rightist Red Cross, frequently officiates at charity bullfights...
...less work. Next week the union will convene in Toledo, Ohio. Present, besides delegates from 2,600 locals, will be Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, Governors Davey of Ohio and Murphy of Michigan. Dignitaries though they are, it is doubtful whether they will be able to steal the limelight from a mongrel dog, 40 years dead...
...away by gangsters, told she must do a decoy dance that night when a Mrs. Van Tuyl, wearing a load of diamonds, shows up at the night club. When the time comes Pat does her enforced bit up to a point, then suddenly covers the crooks with confusion and limelight as they close in around the sparkling neck and bosom of Mrs. Van Tuyl (Doris Rogers...