Word: limelighted
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...Chicago said his wife: "He loves the limelight. He's a four-flusher...
...obituary that Frank Ward O'Malley wrote for himself long after he became "O'Malley of the Sun," one of Manhattan's truly famed newspaper reporters, old style. He quit the newspaper business in 1919, wrote undistinguished magazine articles, moved to Europe, faded from the limelight. Yet when he died last week at 56 in France, "O'Malley of the Sun" was still news all over the country. Editorials mourned the passing of a Great Reporter. Colyumist F. P. Adams called him "the perfect and utter newspaperman...
...TIME (Oct. 3) you've gone to great lengths in quoting the loquacious Huey Long, whose profanity, and ostentation (more than anything else), has put him in the limelight but, in the sight of your most discriminating readers, is in nowise TIMEworthy...
...have fought an unending war, carried on an unceasing campaign to protect the nation. . . . Many of these battles have had to be fought in silence, without the cheers of the limelight or the encouragement of public support because the very disclosure of the forces opposed to us would have undermined the courage of the weak and induced panic in the timid. Hideous misrepresentations had to be accepted in silence. . . There has been much of tragedy but a great national victory has been achieved¯President Hoover at Des Moines...
...their gowns torn, their hats mashed down over their eyes, their shoes scuffed and muddied. In the royal box the Queen and the Prince of Wales stood up and waved excitedly as the crowd surged about the winning horse. The excitement was not simply because a colt named Limelight had just won the Jersey Stakes, but because Limelight was being led in from the track by its proud owner-King George...