Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burning down at us are 44 1,000-watt lamps over the ring . . . all is darkness in the muttering mass of crowd beyond the spotlight. . . . The 'mike' is fixed on the ring floor in front of us. . . . The crowd is thickening in the seats. . . . There's Jim Jeffries . . .Mayor Thompson in a cowboy hat . . . Irvin Cobb . . . John Ringling . . . Tex Rickard in a beige fedora. . . . It's like the Roman Coliseum...
...before the skill and determination of Mrs. Charlotte Hosmer Chapin. Tennis followers saw in the defeat the eclipse of Mrs. Mallory, who came to this country from Norway as Molla Bjurstedt in 1915, and through the years until Helen Wills appeared, monopolized the U. S. women's tennis spotlight...
...There is no need for the President to visit the flood area, efficiently patrolled by Mr. Hoover and other members of the presidential commission. President Coolidge, no spotlight-seeker, has dignifiedly remained in Washington, attended to the nation's business...
...furious apogee, kindred militant Christians in Southeastern Europe are gathering strength once again to repress the Jews. The anti-Semite movement in Hungary is very marked and some ugly details of how Rumania deals with her Jews (TIME, Dec. 13) came to light when Queen Marie threw the spotlight of world interest full upon the Danube. Last week repercussions of this anti-Semite movement prompted an article in Harpers Magazine by the Austrian publicist Josef Bard. Striking shrewdly at the roots of antiSemitism, Herr Bard postulates five attributes possessed by Jews which give them an advantage over Christians...
...Charles Gates Dawes: "Last week, the Vice President and I celebrated our 38th wedding anniversary, received a flood of congratulations. I am usually content to let my politically pugnacious husband occupy the spotlight. He does it so spectacularly. It seems to have become our duty to eat all the dinners that Washington people would like to have the President and Mrs. Coolidge enjoy. As the social buttresses of the Administration, we rarely find time for a quiet evening at home...