Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Lewis' one objective may be a very simple one: just to be in the limelight. Throughout the years, like a potbellied moth, he has courted the flame of publicity. History, while recording his contributions-his gains for his miners; his great exposition of the idea of industrial unionization, his usually peerless strategy-may also record that he was one of U.S. labor's greatest charlatans...
Jolly, mild-mannered Patriarch Agagianian was unruffled by his new limelight. Referring to his patriarchal title of "Beatitude" instead of "Eminence," Agagianian said: "It's better to be blessed than eminent...
...years and has made the life and times of Elizabeth his specialty (England's Elizabeth; Sir Wal ter Raleigh; The Absolute Rulers of England), believes that historians have tended to neglect or forget Robert Dudley's vital role in English history. He believes that too much romantic limelight has been thrown on the young man who succeeded Dudley as the Queen's "most overwritten favorite"-Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. Elizabeth and Leicester reads like a prim rebuke to Lytton Strachey's witty, popular Elizabeth and Essex...
...Lawyer. In 1919 he started a modest law practice, earning about $35 a month. Soon (1921) he found himself in the limelight of Seattle's famous Mahoney trunk murder. His client. James A. Mahoney, was convicted and hanged, but every crime-reading family in the Northwest knew of Lew Schwellenbach's fight to save...
Eleanor Dall Boettiger, out of the limelight since she was Granddaughter "Sistie" at the White House, reached the ripe young age of 18, and entered Reed College in Portland...