Word: limelights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collector: Ethel was "broke," had "no future on the stage ... It is generally known that her popularity has been on the decline for the past several years. At the present time there is practically no demand for her services." Despite this theatrical judgment, Ethel again caught the limelight, made a smash hit on Broadway in The Corn Is Green and in Hollywood with None But the Lonely Heart, The Spiral Staircase and Just for You. Since the compromise, she has made 18 pictures, earned well over...
When Ike skyrocketed to power and responsibility in World War II, Mamie stayed out of the limelight, and settled down in Washington's Wardman Park Hotel. She sat out the war playing mahjong and pooling meat-ration coupons with seven other war-separated generals' wives. They had dinner together almost every night. Mamie did not take her turn at cooking, but she always washed the dishes. After the war, in New York, Washington, Paris, Mamie stayed on in the background, and her friends predict that if she goes to the White House, she will still avoid the spotlight...
...scared the mob, and the second scatered them, making a third dash unnecessary, much to the chagrin of the of law and order. Soon the strike and the students returned to their proper side of the fence. If the situation brought any change, it was the emergence into the limelight of formerly known state Governor Calvin Coolidge...
...developments recorded at the Peruvian station pushed Pickering into the limelight as one of the top astronomers in the world. A newspaper of the day stated that. "His discoveries will add another laurel to his great institution...
...harsh limelight of publicity beats upon her as fiercely as it ever did during the years of the New Deal. Her vigor has prompted her friend & admirer, Anna Rosenberg, to call her the "jet plane with a fringe on top." But Mrs. Roosevelt has changed during her years alone. For one thing, in her appearance. Although she has aged visibly, more than one fascinated Frenchman, watching her speak this year in Paris, murmured: "Madame Roosevelt is becoming beautiful." This new look stems, in part, from an automobile accident which occurred one day in August 1946, as she was driving down...