Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local guild of mastersingers. In Manhattan's Knabe Hall one afternoon last week 200 New Yorkers attended a similar contest sponsored by Tenor Lauritz Melchior and Berthold Neuer of Wm. Knabe & Co. to discover a native "heroic tenor.''* At first it looked like another publicity stunt. Knabe Co., purveyor of pianos to the Metropolitan Opera, offered a prize of a Baby Grand. Melchior, the Met's foremost Wagnerian tenor, announced the contest: "Many of us look to America to produce the great Tristan or Parsifal of the future...
There was a time when Mrs. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was a more fabulous character than her novel-writing husband. That was when she was Zelda Sayre, a Montgomery, Ala. girl, over whose home Wartime aviation officers from nearby Taylor Field used to stunt until their commanding officer told them to stop. When she married Scott Fitzgerald in 1920 shortly after he published This Side of Paradise she lapsed into the semiobscurity of a wife of a famed novelist...
Henry Hobart Porter is 17 years older than handsome Seton but they see eye-to-eye on most questions. Last fortnight Brother Seton, who is president of National Distillers Products, also had something to say about taxes. He dusted off National Distillers' famed publicity stunt -the whiskey dividend of 1932-and used it once again, not to attract attention but to divert it. Both his customers and his Government were disgruntled with him and all other distillers over high liquor prices. So President Porter released a breakdown of the taxes and expenses which the stockholders had been asked...
...brilliant campaigner. Mayor Dore's best stunt was to print handbills closely resembling dollar bills. They bore a picture of Franklin Roosevelt, were marked in each corner "One Vote," carried the legend "Tax Levy 1931, $10.010.408.01, Tax Levy 1933, $5,289,983.87. Dollars...
...Ridge's face cherry-red, said he would have been killed in an other five seconds by fumes which had leaked into the mask. Intrepid Mark Ridge recovered quickly. To a newshawk who appeared two days later, a Liquid Carbonic official snorted: "I am disgusted. ... A cheap publicity stunt. ... I was so disgusted that when they came back next day to complete the experiment I wouldn't let them in. A doctor present at the experiment is quoted as saying that Ridge was only five seconds from death, but I know he was five or ten minutes from...