Word: limelighted
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Stokowski schemes crop thick as clover. Last week he announced that he would organize a junior orchestra, that he intended, also, to let a few of his players try conducting at the regular Orchestra rehearsals. But Philadelphia's most ambitious project this season does not limelight Stokowski. Beginning next week the Orchestra Association will give a series of operas under Conductors Fritz Reiner & Alexander Smallens...
...days later, when NRA's new set-up was announced, the answer was indeed found to be "No". But "Bernie" Baruch was happy that he was once more back in the political limelight, was well aware that even when Gladstone was Prime Minister, Disraeli was a potent figure in his country's politics...
...last few days of practice have indicated, there will be two veterans, Bob Haley and Chet Litman, in the starting backfield. Both are men who were rated far below first string in the early games of 1933, but came more and more into the limelight as the Yale game approached. In practice this season Haley has done a steady job, while Litman was off his game at the start, but swung into brilliant form three days ago and ended up with a 65-yard romp through the Jayvees...
Early in the investigation, a Driggs armament salesman brought the name of George V into the limelight by insisting that His Britannic Majesty had intervened personally in an attempt to swing a sale of anti-aircraft guns to Poland from Driggs to Vickers. Even before Britain had recovered from its shocked horror at this statement other big names came tumbling out into the open. In a few days other arms salesmen had dragged in: Edward of Wales (obstructing Curtiss-Wright sales to South America); Herbert Hoover (as an antidote for H. R. H.); President Rodriguez of Mexico; Admiral Ismael Galindez...
Primary among the Freshman acquaintances to be made today is that of the adviser who is ostensibly to serve as a guide and father confessor for his charge throughout the difficult first year. The advisor was placed in the Freshman limelight in an effort to aid the new comer to Harvard through the most troubles stage of his college career. Halcyon as the first hopes were for the success of the advisory system when it was first tried, recent years have proven that something is indeed lacking in this scheme of helping the bewildered. The adviser has not been...