Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rumor kept the country acutely Capone-conscious. Upright citizens vigorously protested the attention the U. S. Press was giving this disreputable Under-worldling. The Press, however, continued to swing its spotlight around in search of Capone, contending that he was news- worthy, that it was in the public interest to find and keep...
Explained Mrs. Putnam: "We're going to turn the spotlight on the Children's Bureau and abolish it. We thought it only fair to let President Hoover know it in advance. Oh, I don't think the Silent Women will be so silent after all. We'll have plenty...
...house on Fifth Avenue with his skates under his arm whenever, from his drawing room window, he sees figures moving on the lakes in Central Park. Sonja Henie was the Princess, and it was she whom the spectators had come to see. In a gold costume, with the spotlight on her. she stood chained to the mast of a Viking ship; later she gave an exhibition by herself...
...retract anything it said in the editorial referred to, although proof to the contrary will lead to a frank apology. But we must have proof of some of the rather sensational statements Mr. Kreger makes. This spectre of graduate interference with Harvard athletics should either be put where the spotlight will shine on it or be pushed into the wings and kept there. . . . These are serious charges which Mr. Kreger makes and he should substantiate them. Perhaps he will be willing to give the names of the men who did not deserve seats in the shells and also of those...