Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night last week these same five players stood under a spotlight in the middle of the same rink, while adoring home-towners cheered wildly. It was the Rangers' 400th game. These charter members had stuck together from the start, had helped win the Stanley Cup twice, had put the team into the play-offs every season, and, since last Christmas, had hoisted it from bottom to top of the National Hockey League's American division. At the end of the first period of last week's game, with the score 1-to-1, ceremonies took place. Diamond...
...efforts to drag him into the limelight. If rumor be true, he turned down the Attorney-Generalship. In any case he was offered and declined the post of Solicitor General and several other legal offices connected with the new administrative agencies in Washington, positions whose incumbents regularly take the spotlight from cabinet members...
...Chairman William F. Smith of the Wholesale Liquor Dealers Committee of New York telegraphed Federal Alcohol Control Administration's Director Joseph Hodges Choate Jr. to turn the "spotlight of publicity" on an alleged whiskey trust which had cornered 90% of the nation's straight spirits. "Distillery interests," he charged, "are selling inferior blended whiskeys that are cut with more than 17% of artificially colored water and alcohol and are injurious to the health of the consuming public. They are selling these blends to the wholesale and retail liquor dealers at prices around $30 a case. If they...
...spite of his spectacular name, he has sponsored no radical legislation, has sought no spotlight. In Washington he and his wife live down by the Union Station in the Capitol Park Hotel. He acts and dresses like any ordinary businessman, smokes his pipe incessantly, tends quietly and fairly ably to his business as a legislator. His new tax proposals show conclusively that he is no longer bent on "soaking the rich...
Public Character. Born of a strain that feels perfectly comfortable in the public eye, and prepared for the White House spotlight by four years in Albany's executive mansion, Mrs. Roosevelt has let the Press in on her most private comings & goings to an unprecedented extent. Her prodigious publicity has had several effects: to pain people who think the First Lady should be her husband's wife, not a front-page solo character; to gladden people who think it is fine that the country has a woman at its head as vitally interested in almost as many public...