Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prohibition pantomime in Washington has enlisted supers from New Haven and thus interested even more keenly the college world. When a member of the faculty diverges in matters politic or impolitic from the mental paths of the undergraduate, and does so in the spotlight of the governmental stage he points more morals than he really intends...
...stern guardian that he was, suggested occasional play as necessary in the life of his son, Philip. And that sane and sage poet of the Sabine hills confessed that--"it is sweet to play the fool in the right place." Of course the right place is not always the spotlight. But Horace did not appreciate publicity. Young barbarians--old barbarians--all are quite willing to play the fool anywhere in the early spring, culture to the contrary notwithstanding, nor Kappa Kappa Gammas nor New Jersey police...
Another character has stepped from the pages of history into the spotlight of publicity and that none other than the Cumaean Sybil, a lady old at her trade when the glory of Rome was undimmed by northern indiscretions and Aeneas was neither pious nor peregrinating. For she was among the first to practice what W. C. Fields might well describe as--the old army game...
...Park Theatre were it not for the scrupulous attentions which has been paid to the details of production throughout the show. The plot of the comedy like that of all musical comedy is unimportant. A young habituee of the front row center becomes desperately enamoured of a spotlight hero and decides to ship as cabin boy in the yacht which is to carry him to Havana...
...When the spotlight of publicity was turned on, the resignation of the worthies began to flow in. Secretary Wilbur resigned when he "came to doubt the enthusiasm of the people who should have been most interested." Senator Copeland resigned saying he had decided on a course which he had "contemplated for several weeks." Senator McNary, when informed of what was happening, exclaimed: "I make it a practice of investigating things eventually. It is not my habit to be associated with matters in which fraud or impracticability appears. Of course, I shall investigate this...