Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That mission has been fulfilled in many ways. I cannot in modesty outline the stops in a career that has carried me from obscurity to the glare of fame's spotlight, from which I have ceaselessly tried to shrink. But fame is fame, and I belong to my public after ail. When ever I cross the Yard with my dog, I can see that everyone knows who I am. I have me privacy any more but I rather like it. What would life be if we were all on the same plane? We must have our heroes. I've always...
...audience was slightly disconcerted during this notable visit. Desiring to "intensify the mystery and eloquence and beauty of the music" Conductor Stokowski had made his men invisible, with only steady little stars on their music stands. Obliged, nevertheless, to retain his own visibility, he had arranged for a spotlight directly over his head. This was what disconcerted, for it was no modest white spotlight, but a refulgent yellow sun. It shed a mighty and beatific radiance upon the waving Stokowski mane, which, grizzled by daylight, became golden, heavenly, divine. It almost seemed to Manhattan critics that M. Stokowski...
...Alexander Meiklejohn, former President of Amherst College, has reentered the journalistic spotlight by making the statement that democracy is a delusion, a gospel and a venture, in that it treats people as if they were intelligent, kind, pure, high, generous and sweet. They are nothing of the sort, says Professor Meiklejohn. Since he is evidently referring to American democracy, it must be inferred that the people mentioned are members of the American public...
...bustled about, put valises in automobiles, despatched trunks. President and Mrs. Coolidge boarded a special train leaving the Adirondacks at 8 a. m., sat on the observation car drinking in the fresh air, scenery, plaudits. At Burlington, Vt., Mrs. Coolidge's girlhood home, the President graciously yielded the spotlight to his wife, who was surrounded by a merry group of girls from the University of Vermont, the First Lady's Alma Mater. "Hello, Sally," she said. "Why, Mary, is this your boy?" All then, including Mrs. Coolidge, joined in a hearty rendition of "Champlain...
...spread of information. One of the perennial subjects upon which there is opinion in the news columns and facts in the editorial pages is "college education, is it it a good thing?" Every manufacturer of cheap automobiles, every successful chorus girl who has been promoted to the spotlight, and now the world's richest, straphanger feel capable of Litter dicta upon this universal topic...