Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gossner then returned to the limelight, stroking his way to a victory in the 100-yard free-style in 54.0 seconds, with Eusden again pressing the issue. Drucker triumphed in his speciality, the 150-yard backstroke, beating out Brown's highly regarded Bob Wanthouse in the good time of 1:42.5. Don Hartwell was third for the Crimson...
These words must have sounded familiar in the ears of Knight and Privy Councillor Sir Stafford Cripps. Few individuals in the last quarter century of British politics have moved in & out of the limelight so erratically. Said the Manchester Guardian in 1937: "He has some of the higher qualities of leadership-character, disinterestedness, courage, sincerity, and a certain aloofness. He is a thoroughly unskillful politician; he has been in politics for eight years and is still inexperienced; he has made more 'gaffes' than any of his contemporaries...
...shiny was the Cohan professional image that few people realized how aloof was the human being behind it. Cohan left the limelight when he left the theater. When he wrote Twenty Years on Broadway, he never once mentioned either of his wives or any of his four children. Though he called everybody "kid," he confessed that he had just five friends, "and I'm a bit dubious about one of them." His greatest love, outside of his mother, whom he phoned every day no matter where he was, was the one other thing as American as himself-baseball...
...players' artistic consciences rather than attempting to dominate them. Under him, the Chicago Symphony developed a bouquet all its own: subtler than that of the hard-driven Eastern symphonies, it was more akin to the Rhine wine that he loved so well. For years the U.S. music limelight almost passed him by. But when, on one of its rare tours, the finely balanced Chicago Symphony gave a concert in Manhattan in 1940, critics rated Frederick Stock among the world's greatest...
...married Josephine Saenz, daughter of a Panamanian Consul. Otherwise he just worked. He worked in clutching-hand serials, and in some three dozen Westerns. It was not until John Ford picked him up in his superwestern Stagecoach (1939) that Wayne began to get out of the tumbleweed into the limelight. In Seven Sinners and The Spoilers he turned out to be one of the best tackling dummies Marlene Dietrich has ever found. The war has given Cinemactor Wayne an unexpected break. Since outdoor violence has become one of the world's most important occupations, any man who can portray...