Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Next week, after his spell in the limelight, Concertmaster Burgin will be back at his accustomed chair in Boston. He will mark the bowings efficiently, play his passages beautifully, and go home to Brookline on his usual commuter train, where trainmen have instructions to see that he does not lose his Stradivarius...
...soon bereaved by the death of his next-born brother (Schnitzler at 14 months, Freud at 19). The Schnitzler family was the better off; Freud's father was an unsuccessful wool merchant, while Schnitzler's was a fashionable ear, nose and throat specialist, who basked in limelight reflected from theatrical patients. Both young men became physicians and took up neurology; both went to Nancy to study hypnosis under French psychiatrists; both worked in the Vienna clinic of Neurologist Theodor Meynert. Largely because of their experience there, both abandoned the conventional practice of medicine. (Wrote Schnitzler: "Meynert tried...
Columbia has scored an average of 83 points per game in piling up an 8 to 2 record, and bids will to considerably raise the Crimson's 52.0 defensive average. More important than its temporary national limelight, however, is the question of how the varsity will fare against good Ivy League competition...
Guest writing in place of off-duty United Presshen Aline Mosby, full-bodied Cineminx Jayne Mansfield got confidential about her limelight techniques: "My press clippings, bound, weigh 95 lbs. . . . They've meant everything to my career thus far ... If you tell [newsfolk] the truth they try very hard not to hurt you with it ... When my daughter, Jayne Marie, now six, comes to an age when she will have problems, I'll hand her my scrapbook and say, 'This was your mother...
Devoted to his chief and unimpressed by the limelight, Hoover at week's end could be cheered by reports that the Secretary was rapidly recovering, might be back at his Foggy Bottom desk sooner than expected...