Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call the Great Democrat (and the Forecasts have always been democratic). He voluntarily gave up his baronetcy and enter. Forecast Kant-leak Kote, the frst waterproof coal on the market. And he with the help of his advertising manager, a smart young chap named Raliegh, pulled the greatest publicity stunt that the cloak and trade has known, and the Forecast fortune was forthwith made...
Said Pilot Cobham to the press: "It was my idea ... to show the people that there is no stunt about flying. . . . Aviation will make Australia. Instead of farmers being days away from each other they will become a matter of a half-hour or so by plane. ... In Australia it is possible to fly 365 days a year. An English pilot would regard flying in Australia as a rest cure...
...place." It had been often similarly spoken of before and the whole question taken up before the courts which had completely acquitted Mr. Taggart. People marvelled at Miss Ferber's statement that she "desired above all to avoid further publicity," for the affair looked like a shrewd stunt to make Show Boat re-Ferberate through the land. Anyway, Tom threatened suit against her† for $100,000, and the name "Tom Taggart" was subsequently changed to "Sam Maddock" (same number of letters to avoid typographical difficulty). But 135,000 copies had already been sold and there had been publicity...
...shrewd stunt for re-Ferberation...
...what dangerous "stunt" did Maxim Gorky indulge...