Word: limelighted
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...punishing attack from velvet-voiced Defense Counsel James Burge, her coolly elegant façade began to crumble. Toward the end of her testimony, a booing crowd outside the Old Bailey even hurled a couple of eggs in her direction. Mandy, by contrast, plainly relished every moment in the limelight. In her first few minutes of testimony, she said casually that she had made love to Lord Astor as well as Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (Both men later denied her claim.) To Burge's sardonic suggestion that she had only brought in Fairbanks' name to boost the price...
...neither pretty nor witty, though unmistakably a virgin. He, at 42, was both wag and scalawag, who saw to it that his supposedly torrid love life was the talk of literary London. She was rich and a lady, and loathed the limelight. He was a Socialist and no gentleman, and feasted on celebrity. It seemed on all counts an improbable match; yet by Shavian standards it had a certain compelling illogic. As it turned out, the marriage of George Bernard Shaw and Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend lasted 45 years and was, by any measure, a fairly successful...
...entire Boston team played brilliantly; Bill Russell grabbed 24 rebounds and scored 20 points; Tom Heinsohn tallied 31; Bob Cousy had 21 points and 16 assists. But the man in the limelight was Sam Jones, who scored 47 points, kept the Celtics alive in the second period, and engineered the Royals' destruction in the third quarter...
With no Aworis or Abramsons to dominate the limelight, balance and depth highlighted the 1962 freshman winter sports season...
...squash, for the first time in three years, the freshman team did not go undefeated. The Yardlings lost to Princeton and Deerfield, and tied Andover and Exeter, for a 10-2-2 record for the season. Squash was also the only freshman sport where one player dominated the limelight. Dinny Adams, captain and number one man, won ten matches and lost four, climaxing the season by upsetting Yale's John West, the present national junior champ...