Word: limelighted
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Seclusion. No one had believed her. Prima donnas rarely retire at the peak of their career. Still, for five years, Farrar has kept out of the limelight. True there was the concert tour, and an abridged edition of Carmen that toured for a while. But operagoers never lost hope. There have been rumors that she would return to Berlin, that she had already been invited to open the new Metropolitan Opera House. She herself has spoiled the stories.? For her, opera is finished. Henceforth she works in miniature. In opera she played chiefly from her heart, from...
...manhood its last chance to join the colors before conscription overtook it. He next became Secretary of State for War, a post which he relinquished in 1918 to become one of the most popular Ambassadors to France that Britain has ever had. And in 1920, "tired of the limelight," he resigned. Urged to become Secretary for War once again, he refused and, instead, put on horn-rimmed spectacles and went to Ireland as Mr. Edwards...
...Straton has been in the limelight of publicity for the past few years because of his strict and outspoken fundamentalist beliefs, and has lately taken up the cult of divine healing, arousing considerable antagonism from other clergymen on this score...
...spectacular, receiving much approbation from enthusiastic supporters of Indiana's athletics, and a corresponding amount of censure from the more level-headed ones who questioned the wisdom of sacrificing three or four days of classes for one football game. In either case, the students were brought into the limelight, more so, perhaps, than their actions merited, since similar exhibitions of initiative in the regular scheduled work of the university are daily passed over unnoticed. The weary miles of study are longer than those found en route for the big game. The Cornell...
...sure he is the son of Otto H. Kahn who has been exploited in TIME rather an unusual number of times. He is a prominent citizen much in the limelight regarding charities, music and the reorganization of Rail Roads supposedly in successful operation, but all this is "by the way" not warranting his son on the cover while there remains hundreds of others whose appearance there would interest your subscribers and meet their greater approval, and furthermore not warranting so much space given over to a supposedly musical prodigy who has yet far to go. J write with...