Word: limelighted
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...return of Camille to the husky footballer who really loves her provide further complications which, although not unfalteringly hilarious, disclose an unexpected flair for swashbuckling satire on the part of reedy Actor George Curzon, who last year played a somewhat insipid Parnell in Parmil, an unpleasant maniac in Black Limelight. Apparently no more actionable than a last year's film (Sing, Baby, Sing) along the same story lines, Hitch Your Wagon would probably seem to such an experienced theatre man as John Barrymore rather less amusing...
...named on the second All-American team. Other start are Jim Wood, fast man at out home. Known also for his soccer playing abilities in the fall, Wooded was unable, due to a thesis, to take the vacation trip, which trip brought George Cushman, second defenseman, into the limelight, when he came through with six goals to take high-scoring honors Joe Magurn at first defense, Henry Riecken in goal, Tom Champion at center, Jerry Hunsaker at first attack, Charley Hammond at inhome; these are some of the other regulars Skip is counting...
...resolution which Representative Dies introduced for a House investigation of the Sit-Down and its causes. Even under the Old Deal, no Congressional investigating committee ever dared poke its nose far into the affairs of Labor. Under the New Deal, which has missed few chances to turn the limelight on Capital's transgressions. Labor's inviolability has been unquestioned. The Dies resolution was quietly turned over to the potent Rules Committee, from which few bills unwelcome to the Administration ever return...
...Balbo led a mighty mass formation flight of Italian planes in 1933 to Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition and it is logical to suppose that the Lindbergh publicity he thus won "made Mussolini jealous," had its sequel when Il Duce packed him off out of the world's limelight to rule Libya. Last month Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew to be guests of Airman Balbo in his sand-strewn Balboland?and nearly escaped all publicity. In Rome the school of opinion close to Mussolini has it that the Dictator thought what Balbo needed was not more publicity...
...what the legislators vote for becomes law, barring veto by the Governor. Although bicameralists argue that one chamber will be easier to corrupt than two, unicameralists expect exactly the opposite because the legislators cannot dodge responsibility, because being relatively few in number their individual acts will be in the limelight...