Word: limelighted
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There was very little pattern to its triumphs ; it was not a season when revivals, or musicals, or dramas, or comedies held the limelight or hogged the show. In fact, the great triumphs-the things that few who witnessed them would ever forget-were highly special ones, like Judith Anderson's overwhelming performance in Medea or Jerome Robbins' superb Mack Sennett ballet in High Button Shoes...
...larger Air Force; had a hand in all Republican legislation such as the Taft-Hartley act. He has made it clear to Senators Vandenberg and Taft that they must stay on their own side of the Hill, that he is running the House. He stepped boldly into the national limelight recently to intercede in the coal strike...
...street. Bob's favorite game was chess. In 1900, Father was sent out to administer the Philippines; the family spent four years in Malacanan Palace in Manila, but after two years, Bob returned to the U.S. to go to Taft School. Serious, shy, he shrank from the limelight which bathed his father as President of the U.S. But he liked to play charades in the White House and dance the Boston with Martha Bowers, whom he subsequently followed to Europe to persuade her to marry...
...Blackie Boone, his wife-"ask anybody in Fillmore about her." The portraits have the hard authenticity of those notices that are put up in post offices of people who are wanted for murder. And the characters seem like suspects in Author Gibbons' police lineup, blinking in the limelight, not quite sure of what they are charged with...
Cast into sudden limelight by Soviet Russia's 10 to 1 deflation of the ruble, tonight's Law School Forum will ask "What Shall We Do About The High Cost of Living?" Scheduled for Rindge Tech Auditorium at 8 o'clock, the Forum will feature Senator Homer Capehart (R-Ind.) and Leon Keyserling...