Word: limelighted
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...Curtis last month. To Curtis Bok, able grandson of an able grandfather, able son of an able father, passed the prestige and tradition and responsibility, if not the immediate wealth of the Curtis-Bok family. But when for the first time since his succession Curtis Bok stepped into the limelight to perform an important act of public service, it was not as the scion of the rulers of a huge publishing empire but as a stubbornly independent individual doing what he considered his independent duty...
...other was to be Prime Minister, an ambition which he abandoned after the War because he was "tired of the limelight." *Last week in an interview with Sportswriter Westbrook Pegler, Postmaster General Farley announced a new liberal interpretation of the ruling which bars from the mails news of lottery and sweepstake winnings. Said he: ''The only publicity I would object to would be outright advertisement of the lotteries. The law says we can't have that. The papers can go ahead, though, and print all the news there is about the poor chambermaid or the unemployed coal...
...Italian literature to women. After he had published 20 books of short stories and three novels, a playwright friend persuaded him to dramatize one of his stories into a one-act play. With Six Characters in Search of an Author (produced in Rome in 1921) Pirandello leaped into the limelight. He gave up teaching; from a hermit-like professor he soon became a fashionable and active author-manager, rushing to openings by airplane...
...directors of Fox Film Corp. to make way for Senator Daniel O. Hastings of Delaware (receiver for General Theatres Equipment, Inc., which controls Fox) and several Fox officials. No change of control was signified, but gentlemen had a natural desire to retire from a directorate on which the limelight of Senatorial investigation may soon be playing...
...question of breaking training has again been dragged out into the limelight as the result of a meeting of the track team yesterday where the coach informed his men that he had definite proof in the shape of anonymous letters that some of them were breaking training. He proceeded to ask all of them to report any future defalcations along this line on the part of their teammates, and concluded with a sweeping exhortation to fight for cleaner sports and dear old Harvard. Thus was brought of a climax a subject on which certain episodes in the football season...