Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mrs. Frances Harrell Marsalis, 29, stunt flyer, holder with Helen Richey of the women's refueling endurance record; when her airplane crashed rounding a pylon in a 50-mile race at the Dayton National Women's Air Meet; in Vandalia, Ohio...
...covered by a questionnaire to editors who were asked to name the most important news break of the 50 years, barring the War and Armistice. First choice: Lindbergh's flight. Most fruitful news personality and figure: Theodore Roosevelt. Best U. S. editor-publisher: Joseph Pulitzer. Best single "news stunt": New York World's fight against the Ku Klux Klan...
...Manhattan officials refused the marriage license. Exclaimed William C. Chanler, acting corporation counsel: "The very idea of such a marriage is quite immoral and indecent. I feel that a publicity stunt is involved...
...seems to me that the NSL Secretary deliberately used his University connection as a shield to ward off any serious consequences that he might have had to face as a result of his cheap publicity stunt. In so doing he has dragged the rest of the University into the mud after...
...performer, to night club owner is accomplished by his repeated refusal to mix business with pleasure, firing his dancing partners when they interfere with his consuming desire to be famous. Becoming a sensation in London and Paris with Helen (Carole Lombard), he enters the World War as a publicity stunt, expecting the fracas to be ended in a few weeks. Helen loses her hero-worship, and marries an English noble...