Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stunt fliers, automobile racers, pearl divers, bull fighters risk wicked wounds in the exercise of their bodies for gold. Not so fisticuffers, footballers, baseball players, golf champions who make most of the money. This winter, however, has seen a shift in money values which brings one sport at least nearer a financial level with its vicious risks. Professional hockey players are being bartered for many thousands, receiving presumably increasingly fat dividends for their efforts. One rumor floats about that the Montreal Canadians hold Howie Morenz, greatest of all hockey players...
Cried Admiral Taylor: "I believe the whole conference was a political stunt. I don't believe America went there meaning to reduce armaments. The sooner America knows we are not going to be humbugged the better it is. I may appear to be attacking America. Make no mistake-I AM attacking her. America is within her rights to build as she pleases, but if she does she is putting back the hands of the clock...
...Calles Government has tended toward a confiscatory policy on alien property, a motive for Mr. Hearst wanting to "sic" the Senate on Mexico was clear. Public implication of the four Senators was, in the opinion of the decent U. S. press (see p. 20), an impudent journalist's "stunt...
...General Obregon. . . . With reports at 10:30 that Col. Lindbergh was half way between Tampico and Mexico City, the huge crowd (more than 25,000) began to mill around eager to get good positions. Nine Mexican Army airplanes hopped off to meet him. One of the planes doing stunt flying went into a nose dive and crashed several hundred yards in front of the Presidential stand. The pilot was not injured. Federal soldiers constantly arrived. . . . 10,000 men in and around the inclosure. . . . Returning scout planes landed at 11:42 without having sighted Col. Lindbergh. . . . Silence almost approaching gloom prevailed...
...hear about the Lady Godiva stunt a girl is going to pull...