Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Delano Roosevelt and John Roosevelt of the third generation, and Sara Delano Roosevelt of the fourth generation, all gathered last week under one roof for Christmas. Since Sistie and Buzzie Dall were absent because one had a cold, Sara, 3-year-old daughter of James, had the White House spotlight to herself...
...question of silicosis last week caused a wrangle in San Francisco, where doctors, lawyers, miners, mineowners, insurance men, legislators, public health agents and fuss-budgets met to argue the pros & cons of a disease which has lately taken the public spotlight as the subject of bitter industrial controversy...
Standish and Gore Ball fought to a 4-4 deadlock in the first annual intra-House indoor baseball game among the Puritans. Tom Bilodeau, Varsity baseball man, starred for the Standishites, while Bill Welch stole the spotlight in the ranks of the Gorites...
Georges Andre Martin acts as master of ceremonies with considerable suaveness and a nice sort of Chevalier accent. He justifies himself in the second act with a most unusual and amusing novelty. With the spotlight focused on a black table top, he causes two fingers of each hand to move so that they give an exact imitation of the more popular dance styles. Raphael, the well known concertina player, has, under his French plumber's exterior, the soul and talent of the lighter and more dazzling classics which stop the show for numerous encores. The Rocky brothers dance lightly...
Football has reacted to this responsibility in a very understandable manner. It has sought the center of the spotlight; it has purchased good material; and it has placed a thoroughly unnatural and undesirable emphasis on the whole sport...