Word: limelighted
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Certainly it was a hopeful, happy Franklin Roosevelt who descended his gangplank from the cruiser Indianapolis to take the limelight on the stage that his advance...
...Saavedra made entirely his own baby, even refusing election as President of the League of Nations Assembly to do so. Since Dr. Saavedra was adamant in rejecting all peace proposals which he did not originate, the U. S. delegate on the peace commission, Spruille Braden. carefully left the limelight to the distinguished Doctor. Again for the sake of his goodwill, the scene of the present conference was set at Buenos Aires so that Dr. Saavedra would become its president. More reluctantly Mr. Hull allowed the whole conference to be postponed for several months in order not to interfere with...
...wind was whipping the last leaves of the Presidential trees when Franklin Roosevelt shuffled out on the egg-rolling lawn behind the White House. He promptly became the centre of a large gathering of mixed gender, for it was the annual occasion on which he shares the limelight with its authors, his annual photograph with White House newshawks. The rite performed, the crowd followed him into the oval reception room on the ground floor of the White House. There he sat and made gay quips as if he had nothing in the world to do. Actually he was a dreadfully...
...Black Limelight (by Gordon Sherry; Busbar & Tuerk, producers). The villain of Black Limelight suffers from "nyctalopia." This medical term actually means an eyesight defect resulting in poor vision at night, but for the purposes of Author Gordon Sherry (a pseudonym) it refers to eyes which can see well in the dark but must be protected by thick glasses from the light of day. The monster's homicidal mania leaps up at the time of the full moon. Working in the dark, he takes off his glasses, puts on gloves, chokes the victim to death, cuts her up with artistic...
...Black Limelight spins along smoothly enough for two acts, bogs down at the denouement, is saved on total rating by the abilities of George Curzon (lately the Parnell of Parnell), Winifred Lenihan and Alexander Kirkland...