Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...limelight as abruptly as Gable went Cinemactor Henry Fonda, 34-year-old husband and father, who made eight pictures in the past year, then enlisted in the Navy as apprentice seaman. Said he: "I've been working hard to make it possible for my wife and three children to get along...
Tommy Ayres shared the limelight with his captain, accounting for three goals. The Crimson forces went into a 3 to 1 lead in the opening period on scores by Bill Hamlen, Ayres, and Ned Harding. Dong Sturges netted the puck or the Phillipians...
Forceful Mr. Fay, who has never sought the limelight, soon rose to fame. He became a big shot in labor circles, an employer, a pal of Jersey City's Boss Frank Hague. Charges of racketeering were frequently hurled at him, never stuck. He was named as a suspect in the shooting and killing of a New York labor leader who defied him. (The case was never brought to trial.) Last year, when David Dubinsky tried to force an anti-racketeering resolution through an A.F. of L. convention, Mr. Fay was said to have slugged him. ("There was a little...
This London reception cost Doktor Rosenberg the Nazi Foreign Ministry. He was removed from the political limelight and left to his scholarly studies, the classrooms where he taught young Nazis how to garble history and philosophy, and the editorship of the Völkischer Beobachter. But he soon resumed more practical work -the secret coordination of anti-Communist groups along the Russian border from Finland to the Ukraine. During the German-Soviet Pact it was frequently stated that Doktor Alfred Rosenberg was under a cloud. But probably his Führer frequently pointed out to him the silver lining...
...races and getting very little sleep if they should live in New York City where the horns of automobiles make it so tough for one's nerves. No gorgeous Cadillacs or Packards waiting for him at the door of the hotel every morning, no stiff cocktail parties, no limelight...