Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London press wallowed in the courtroom spectacles: 6½ columns a day in the Daily Telegraph, up to three full columns in the sobersided Times. Basking in the limelight, Liberace, who first came to court in an uncharacteristically quiet blue suit, changed to a costume featuring an exuberant bronze Shantung suit, gold-buckled crocodile shoes and piano-shaped diamond and onyx cuff links. These devices stole the show from Defendant Connor, grumpily denying he meant any serious harm: the columns were only "fair comment" on the "biggest sentimental vomit of all time," the fruity allusions just "part of the impression...
Several famed Harvard personalities shared the limelight of '34,s last year. "Copey" moved out of the Yard (for reasons of health, not noise, as originally suspected). The beloved Dean Briggs died toward the end of the year, and President Eliot was eulogized in a Centenary observance in his honor. Guest personalities in Cambridge included Walter Lippmann '10, who delivered the Godkin lectures, and Alistaire Cooke, imported to direct the Hasty Pudding show, entitled "Hades! The Ladies...
Today, along with rising interest in the Art Nouveau movement of the 1890's, Beardsley has been brought once more into the limelight. As the show in Lamont testifies, his gifts were indeed impressive--he was a fine caricaturist (see his amusing sketch of Mendelssohn), his mastery of line at times equals Ingres' and his formal arrangements recall the brilliance of Toulouse-Lautrec. Though he was a clumsy landscapist, incompetent in his handling of perspective and an uninventive colorist, he had the good sense to play down these weaknesses and concentrated instead on the flat black and white sketches...
...both Universal and General. Lou Chesler came to the U.S. three years ago with $4,000,000, has since run up a paper profit of $70 million on his Universal and General holdings alone. Yet few Wall Streeters know him, since he keeps in the background, trains the limelight on his U.S.-born junior partners...
...disappointing to see another Minnesotan straining too hard to become President. We went through that with our favorite son, Harold Stassen. If the messages were indeed "secrets" on which hangs our nation's security, then our Senator's action in using them to propel himself into the limelight must be regarded as the most reckless folly...