Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last five years on ice she has moved up from the last row of the chorus in ice shows, to the spotlight. For two summers show has been featured at the St. Paul Pops. The Pops are evenings of Music supplied by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, punctuated by two short ice revues. The season is a rugged one of three performances and six daylong rehearsals every week, and Barbara keeps fit for them on a concessionaire's diet of vanilla ice cream canes and potato chips...
Performance of rarely-heard compositions will spotlight two concerts scheduled by the Glee Club this month...
Three ambassadors will spotlight a now series of addresses scheduled by the Council. Henri Bonnet of France, Eclo van Kleffene of the Netherlands, and Lord Inverchapel of Britain will participate in discussions entitled "Western Europe Speaks" in coming weeks...
While being all things to all men, Runyon succeeded in always keeping his spotlight fixed on the central characters, and his lurid descriptions of them still retain their vitality. But, compared with the cool, intelligent journalism of Trial Reporter Rebecca West, Runyon's reporting is sensationalism cooked to Hearstian taste. Time has dulled the edge of the slangy, informal jargon that won Runyon so many admirers, and his dramatic exclamations pale into mere verbosity when Mrs. Snyder is asked "Why did you kill your husband?" and gives the utterly simple reply...
Although handy with a megaphone, Ozzie was never a great singer. So he hired Harriet Hilliard to share the bandstand spotlight. Harriet couldn't sing much better than Ozzie, but she was considerably prettier. Together they improvised a "talky-type song-a "back & forth, boy & girl" exchange that the customers loved. They were married...