Word: limelighters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advising students of the need for hauling the enemies of peace into the limelight in order to attack them, Professor Prall put his hand on the heart of the whole problem. The causes of war, especially among democratic nations which are supposed to work out their own destiny, are so ephemeral and hard to distinguish that historians years later are at odds as to exactly what started the conflagration. The mass of the electorate can judge of economic rivalries with little accuracy, and the patriot and potential profiteer look much alike. So far the Senate munitions investigations have made...
...Bingham's report brings into the limelight again the perplexing question of the emphasis to be placed upon inter-collegiate football at Harvard. Dr. Bock's opinion that the period of practice should in the interests of health be lengthened by an earlier opening in September seems to give the university two alternatives with regard to this question. Either this extension, with its resulting emphasis upon football, must be adopted in the hope of averting injuries, or the strain upon the athletes must be relieved by a reduction in the number of games...
Author, Producer, Patriot, As every limelight-lover knows, any great public sensation may be readily capitalized for some personal publicity. Last week mellow Author Christopher Morley got his name in the papers by remarking over the radio: "We have seen only a few days ago, in a crowning humiliation, an example of publicity's cruel power. People can be killed with photographs as surely as with guns...
...editorial in question, "Unrest at the Universities," continues to say, that when a teacher of a university becomes involved in a labor or political quarrel, he "brings the university into the limelight with himself", and publicity presents himself as an "agitator...
...attacking the new trade agreement with Canada ex-President Hoover is once again showing his habitual narrowness and complete lack of imagination. As if determined to bring his attacks on the New Deal into the limelight at any price, the man from Palo Alto in a not altogether successful attempt at humor described the treaty as "the more abundant life--for Canadians...