Word: limelighted
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...shiny was the Cohan professional image that few people realized how aloof was the human being behind it. Cohan left the limelight when he left the theater. When he wrote Twenty Years on Broadway, he never once mentioned either of his wives or any of his four children. Though he called everybody "kid," he confessed that he had just five friends, "and I'm a bit dubious about one of them." His greatest love, outside of his mother, whom he phoned every day no matter where he was, was the one other thing as American as himself-baseball...
...players' artistic consciences rather than attempting to dominate them. Under him, the Chicago Symphony developed a bouquet all its own: subtler than that of the hard-driven Eastern symphonies, it was more akin to the Rhine wine that he loved so well. For years the U.S. music limelight almost passed him by. But when, on one of its rare tours, the finely balanced Chicago Symphony gave a concert in Manhattan in 1940, critics rated Frederick Stock among the world's greatest...
...married Josephine Saenz, daughter of a Panamanian Consul. Otherwise he just worked. He worked in clutching-hand serials, and in some three dozen Westerns. It was not until John Ford picked him up in his superwestern Stagecoach (1939) that Wayne began to get out of the tumbleweed into the limelight. In Seven Sinners and The Spoilers he turned out to be one of the best tackling dummies Marlene Dietrich has ever found. The war has given Cinemactor Wayne an unexpected break. Since outdoor violence has become one of the world's most important occupations, any man who can portray...
...limelight as abruptly as Gable went Cinemactor Henry Fonda, 34-year-old husband and father, who made eight pictures in the past year, then enlisted in the Navy as apprentice seaman. Said he: "I've been working hard to make it possible for my wife and three children to get along...
Tommy Ayres shared the limelight with his captain, accounting for three goals. The Crimson forces went into a 3 to 1 lead in the opening period on scores by Bill Hamlen, Ayres, and Ned Harding. Dong Sturges netted the puck or the Phillipians...