Word: limelighted
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...years and has made the life and times of Elizabeth his specialty (England's Elizabeth; Sir Wal ter Raleigh; The Absolute Rulers of England), believes that historians have tended to neglect or forget Robert Dudley's vital role in English history. He believes that too much romantic limelight has been thrown on the young man who succeeded Dudley as the Queen's "most overwritten favorite"-Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. Elizabeth and Leicester reads like a prim rebuke to Lytton Strachey's witty, popular Elizabeth and Essex...
...Lawyer. In 1919 he started a modest law practice, earning about $35 a month. Soon (1921) he found himself in the limelight of Seattle's famous Mahoney trunk murder. His client. James A. Mahoney, was convicted and hanged, but every crime-reading family in the Northwest knew of Lew Schwellenbach's fight to save...
Eleanor Dall Boettiger, out of the limelight since she was Granddaughter "Sistie" at the White House, reached the ripe young age of 18, and entered Reed College in Portland...
...years the Vanadium Corp. of America jogged along in its own quiet way, all but unknown to the public. Last week it was blasted into the limelight. Vanadium is one of the chief suppliers to the atomic bomb project...
...advanced, Fitzgerald found himself less & less in tune with it. The accent on youth remained on him, but it seemed to have left everybody else. Some of his friends had died; a few had gone insane ; others had suddenly grown intensely serious and were reading Karl Marx. The literary limelight was no longer on him but on the novelist he most admired, Ernest Hemingway...