Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...26th U. S. president could hope last week to keep up with that of the 32nd (see p. 18) was of course unthinkable, but no more unthinkable than that the former would give up without a fight. From Shanghai, where she had been keeping herself ably in the limelight, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. last week arrived in Manila on the President Jefferson just in time to maintain her clan's record for attendance at oriental earthquakes. Said she, in an able radio broadcast: "I want to extend heartfelt thanks for the way in which we were received at Manila...
Died. Harold Francis Davidson, 65, "The Lustful Rector of Stiffkey" (pronounced Stewkey); after being attacked by a lion; at Thompson's Amusement Park, Skegness, Lincolnshire, England. Since his unfrocking for unministerial relations with prostitutes, Mr. Davidson had kept in the limelight by appearing at a suburban movie house, exhibiting himself in a barrel, being ejected from a nudist camp. His last exploit, lion-taming, ended when during the course of his act he accidentally trod on the toe of a lioness whose mate leaped at him, mortally mauled him before his 16-year-old girl assistant could come...
...House, attended the Du Pont-Roosevelt nuptials, accompanied the President on two of his three major campaign trips last year, a swing to Denver, another through West Virginia to Pittsburgh. Credited with having assembled the Brain Trust in 1932, Judge Rosenman, unlike the Brain Trusters, kept out of the limelight. Last week Judge Rosenman was drafted, but again for a spot far from the limelight. After a conference with his friend Franklin Roosevelt, he packed himself off for a ten-week stay near Blue Mountain Lake in the Adirondacks. His baggage was loaded with work. The President had given...
With the closing of the current academic year at hand the thoughtful undergraduate can look back on numerous university achievements that share the limelight. Most easily recalled are the Tercentenary and the H-Y-P Conference. Perhaps not so readily remembered are the important accomplishments of the Harvard Student Council, the revival of which began last year when its constitution was brought up to date. Led by an enterprising chairman in 1936-37, the Council made seven major investigations, awarded twenty-two scholarships, gave 42500 to Phillips Brooks House, $1000 to local charities, and rescued 1200 middies from the subway...
What threatened to be another rainy track day, turned into one of ideal conditions for the Harvard-Yale track meet at New Haven Saturday. Two courageous teams, both of whom had since earlier in the year pulled themselves out of mediocrity and into the limelight, fought to the very end united in effort and spirit in the tradition of half a century of track contests...