Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hushed in the sanctity of the Cabinet Chambers. The Ancient Order of Sphinxes or a Convention of Lynnhaven Oysters is no more efficiently safeguarded from eager ears than the Cabinet. . . . "The worst that can be honestly said of Congress, is that it exhibits the human equation performing under a spotlight. The best that can be said is, that the United States is in pretty good shape after years of Congressional guidance. Probably the Congress has had something to do with this. Probably the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans should get the credit...
Miss Murray briefly summed up her career. "I have danced, danced, danced .... in the street to the music of hurdygurdles, before an old convent I attended, in the glamorous spotlight of the "Follies" under the instruction of Ziegfield, on expensive sets in lavish movies. The cinema has its charm, but after two more pictures I am hidding it adieu. My husband and I are going to Tunis to live, close to the romantic Sahara...
...Spotlight. Herein a little U. S. blonde, Lizzie Stokes, is transformed into dark and dangerous Russian actress, Olga Rostova, thus allowing Esther Ralston to prove that she can be quite as intriguing under a black wig as under her own shingled gold. The plot moves quietly along until the moment when Olga Rostova must tell her most devoted admirer in the presence of her producer and severest critic that she is, in reality, no Russian beauty but only poor little Lizzie Stokes. At this crisis, Esther Ralston also proves that she can actually act when circumstances make it imperative...
Since channel swimming become a practically unknown sport, after it was learned that all one needed was a heavy blanket of fog and a strong oarsman, the spotlight of publicity for not doing things has shifted to aviation. "Our Ruth", as we never call her, proved that all one needed was to come down beside a big merchantman, be picked up in the orthodox way, taken to port, and live thereafter in a Paradise of dotted lines...
...without positive proof, to blame hidden influences for the silence of the press in such a case. Mr. McCullough--granting that his opinion on Mexican affairs may carry weight--does not make sufficient allowance for the nature of a modern newspaper. Marvellous, in its completeness and accuracy, as the spotlight of publicity may be, it shifts, like all spotlights from one part of the stage to another, leaving now Nicaragua, now Mexico, now Ohina in total darkness after a brief if brilliant illumination. History however goes on being made in the dark. Such charges are a challenge to journalism...