Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousand eminent men and women gave her a banquet at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Intended as a tribute to an able woman who had achieved a career in her own right, it had the effect of retorting to criticism of her behavior as First Lady-elect: too much spotlight, too little dignity...
...bright spotlight necessary for the photographic exposure is believed to be the cause of the reptile's stubbornness. It was stated that the snake has not eaten since Thanks-giving, but that it will not eat until it decides to perform for the Film Foundation...
...year ill spent when he does not drop at least $50,000 experimenting with new magazines. His publishing history is dotted with Vol. 1 No. 1's that never lived to be No. 2's. Last year alone he launched, promptly scuttled, Children's Magazine, National Spotlight. But that formula of trying anything at least once gave him Ballyhoo and, lately, the strangely successful Radio Stars...
...grave have been the world's other troubles in recent weeks that the third successive Indian Round Table Conference has dragged out its deliberations in almost complete obscurity. Last week its Hindus, Moslems, Parsees and British politicians seized the spotlight for a brief instant by marching into the King's Robing Room of the House of Lords for their final session. India Office immediately issued handfuls of optimistic propaganda hailing the Conference as "largely successful." Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for India, sent the delegates home with the following pat on the back...
Reds. Two years ago 500 Communists demonstrating before the Capitol stole the headlines from Congress on its opening day. Last December 1,600 Red hunger-marchers demanding relief were the centre of interest. This year Senators and Representatives managed to hold the spotlight only because Superintendent of Police Ernest W. Brown cooped up a tatterdemalion army of 3,000 Red demonstrators in the suburbs two miles from the Capitol...