Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barit's action was certainly not the familiar automotive stunt of changing a few gadgets as an excuse for lowering a car's price. The Hudson 112 is a bona fide new car. Nonetheless motormen generally regarded it as primarily an attempt to snare a market which has balked at high prices. How successful it will be remains to be seen, but last week it had President Roosevelt's blessing...
...press during the past year. Since 1933 when it first sent out a touring "pilgrimage team" consisting of a minister, rabbi and priest, the N. C. J. C. has increased such activities until, last year, 25 teams traveled 25,000 miles preaching amity. Newest N. C. J. C. goodwill stunt is for a team to "bury a hatchet" in public, as was done in Seattle when Rabbi Solomon Goldman of Chicago wielded a spade while Presbyterian Rev. Stanley Armstrong Hunter of Berkeley, Calif, and Rev. Thomas Lawrason Riggs, famed chaplain of Yale's Catholic Club, deposited a small hatchet...
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...Paris police laughed at the case for nine weeks, and intimated that it was all a publicity stunt...
...spite of, or because of the fact that Miss Skinner is the hardest-worked actress now playing on Broadway, her entertainment has a large element of stunt-appeal. Theatregoers tell each other how wonderful it is that she can do it all alone. Edna His Wife is also a fascinating guessing-game. Only by inference from the spoken lines can the audience know what the invisible characters are supposed to be saying. Thanks to Miss Skinner's powers of suggestion, Edna's husband, who never appears, seems as real as any person in the play...