Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respondent in Mr. Revell's suit for divorce) and sprinted. Near 5th Avenue a burly man caught and held him. Mrs. Revell caught up and renewed her attack with nail, fist, tooth, and then had Mr. Revell arrested for assault. Said he: "The incident was a stunt on the part of my wife to embarrass me and carry out her threat to not only ruin my reputation but break...
...seeking. They said he was trying to show off because he had just become chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee. They reminded people that he was the Congressman who wangled the Army-Navy football game out of the East and onto Soldier Field, Chicago, two years ago-a "publicity stunt" if ever there was one. Moreover Mr. Britten had been notoriously a Big Navy man. His volte face could only be meant as a grandstand play. The political pundits on the sidelines blushed for their country...
...Loeb denied these charges and said that Miss Stoner was indulging in a "publicity stunt...
...Churchill has achieved two objectives. His embonpoint is somewhat reduced; and. what with elections coming on, he has reaped much vote-getting publicity among the myriads of laboring Britons who have seen him troweling and slathering mortar in the "picture papers." Since the whimsical Chancellor has actually carried his stunt to the extreme of joining a bricklayers' union, he was able to display to Agent Gilbert a union card...
William Randolph Hearst Jr., 20, returned from, his honeymoon, began work on his father's favorite newspaper, the New York American, as a cub reporter. Said he: "This is no stunt...