Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pitted against Scheu and Bliss, winners of the 1000-yard run in the Tri Meet, Bob Woodward Thursday stole the spotlight in the University Handicap Meet by breaking the tape for the 1500-meters in record time, 4:9.2. Other highlights of the meet included Hornbostel's victory over Bay Estes in the 3200-meter and Milt Green's two wins in the hurdle events...
Last week the spotlight was turned once more on such activities in the city which has not only the largest local relief population in the U.S. but also has more than its share of white-collar idle. If every man, woman & child in Providence, Birmingham, Dallas, Akron, Oklahoma City and Omaha were on relief they would approximately equal the number of persons in New York City now living on government bounties. They number 1,400,000- one-fifth the total population.* To support them costs about $20,000,000 per month, of which the city supplies onefourth, the State onefourth...
...loin cloths and indulged in acrobatics which would have been perilous without the wires which hoisted them into the air. Because the occasion was in part a farewell to Manager Giulio Gatti- Casazza every effort was made to get him to appear on the stage. But Gatti shuns the spotlight. Instead, cinema pictures of him were shown from The March of Time while the performers sang "Auld Lang Syne." The entire audience rose and clamored for the man who has guided the Metropolitan through 27 years. Gatti stood far back in his box, tears in his eyes, his arm uplifted...
Smalltowner. For Robert Houghwout Jackson, 43, the Mellon hearings meant a maiden appearance in the national spotlight. He appeared to dislike it. Only last year his boyhood friend, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, plucked him from a prosperous but relatively obscure private & corporation practice in small Jamestown, N. Y. to be general counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Shy, husky, genial, he likes to dance, ride over his farm near Jamestown, boat on Lake Chautauqua. To newshawks he protests: "I've never done anything. I'm just a country lawyer." But after two weeks of curt, pointed...
...position, bore Liszt three children and saw him truly as a superficial showman so dependent on adulation that he could never adjust himself to solitude and concentrated work. Liszt kept his shallow ways even after he turned to the Church. He repented periodically but he reverted always to the spotlight, to flatterers who kissed his hand, cherished his cigar butts, begged for locks of his hair. Critic Newman does not deny that Liszt did much for struggling Rich ard Wagner. But he spoils the effect of other generosities by showing how careful Liszt was to have them widely publicized...