Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Present-day boys at the large, smart, modern school in the gentle hills of mid-New Jersey are inclined to view the Johnsonian pranks as childish. Their chief stunt is to make "rhinies" (new boys) wear special caps, roll down trouser cuffs, keep off the grass. They stop classes every morning for a 15-min. session of crackers & milk. Lawrenceville enrollment has grown from 60-odd to about 500 and a Student Council rules the campus with a firm hand. It may expel any boy for cause, may even recommend the dismissal of a master. Popular in the Midwest, Lawrenceville...
Margaret Bruening of the New York Post: "A stunt canvas. ... It has no apparent artistic value-its organization is nil, its color unpleasant." Edward Alden Jewell of the New York Times: "An extraordinarily fine piece of . . . painting. The composition seems flawless; the color orchestration, subtle and convincing." Second prize ($1,000) went to Germany's Karl Hofer for an apathetic picture of three scantily clad males. U. S. Artist Sidney Laufman took the $500 third prize with a pleasant, unexciting Spring Landscape. The Allegheny Garden Club gave André Derain a $300 prize for a vase of roses...
...excellent clerk. In 1917 he enlisted as a private in the U. S. ambulance service, rose to sergeant, transferred to the air service as a balloon observer, came out a first lieutenant. After the War Roscoe Turner became a lion-tamer in a circus, later a barnstorming j stunt pilot, wing-walker and parachute-jumper. He toured the country advertising Curlee Clothing Co. of St. Louis and, in 1924, married a dark-haired, pretty Corinth girl named Carline Stovall...
...Pickett introduced steer-wrestling some 25 years ago, dared his confrères to copy it. In addition to freakish specialties like milking wild cows, last week's world series rodeo included also a mounted basketball game, in which a team of cowboys challenged all-comers; performances by stunt horses; a juvenile chariot race; singing of hillbilly songs rarely heard except by radio west of the Hudson River...
...Cambridge spokesman said. "For years Andover men have comprised the largest contingent in the Freshman class at Yale, but recently the trend has changed so that nearly as many Andover men are going to Harvard as to Yale. These transfers are Andover men, and we have decided that this stunt was all planned out last year by Yale authorities trying to lure Harvard men to Yale and bolster that rapidly declining institution...