Word: limelighted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made news all through the '20s as a big-time lawyer in Manhattan and Paris, a friend of celebrities, a mixer-in-politics and a taker-up-of-causes (feminism, persecuted Reds, Tennessee Darwinian John T. Scopes); of a heart ailment; in Culver City, Calif. Seldom in the limelight since the early '30s, Malone became a Hollywood lawyer, played Winston Churchill in the 1943 movie Mission to Moscow ("All lawyers and politicians are actors at heart...
...Walker went back to the front, frequently using airplanes, including grasshopping liaison craft, and always refusing fighter cover. One trip took him to the east coast to inspect the 1st Cavalry's landing area at Pohang (see above). Walker had always been a man to avoid the limelight, a quality which had long endeared him to less modest superiors. Now he was, willy-nilly, caught in the glare of public attention and public concern...
...first time in the Spring season, Harvard weightmen will come into the limelight as the deciding factor in a relatively close meet. The Crimson track team, that has averaged over 100 points per meet against Boston College and Rhode Island, runs into the fast squads of Holy Cross and Boston University at 1:30 p.m. this afternoon in the Stadium...
Died. Arthur Melancthon Hopkins, 71, Broadway producer-director (80 plays) for 37 years; in Manhattan. Ex-Reporter (Cleveland Press) Hopkins boosted into the limelight such famed personalities as John, Lionel and Ethel Barrymore, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, Playwrights Eugene O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson and Philip Barry, the late Producer Brock Pemberton and Stage Designer Robert Edmond Jones...
Instead he had dragged a batch of tired old loyalty cases back into the limelight and hashed over charges which had been hashed and rehashed (and in some cases, refuted) in the past. His tactics backfired during the testimony of his first victim-62-year-old Miss Dorothy Kenyon, a onetime Manhattan municipal judge and former U.S. delegate to UNESCO, where she consistently gave the Russian delegation the benefit of a sharp tongue...