Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state auditor. That report was, for some, a distinct disappointment. Intelligent public faith in it was destroyed by the press fanfare which accompanied the confidential investigation and which derived its information from "authoritative sources in the State House;" to a great many the whole business looked like a publicity stunt, designed to build up a promising young politician. And, as if this were not enough, the report itself was inept; when it was not incredibly violent it shied away from the point; as Gill's counsel insisted and demonstrated yesterday its information was derived from everyone except those who knew...
...Raoul (George Raft) becomes a dancer. As he rises in the world, he casts off partner after partner because they try to mix pleasure and business. He acquires an able partner in Helen (Carole Lombard), but loses her when he talks of going to war as a good publicity stunt. When Raoul returns with a bad heart, Helen has married another man. She rejoins Raoul long enough to help him accomplish his great ambition- a "sensational" dance to the Bolero. Then the heart behaves as expected...
Zion City is run by Overseer Wilbur Glenn ("The World Is Flat") Voliva of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church. When he heard what the Christian Assembly Church, a schismatic upstart, was up to he became choleric, told his followers: "It's a publicity stunt. That church is a monkey house.'' Overseer Voliva sent his chief of police around but all that official could do was to have the loudspeakers shut off at night...
...portrayed in "Bolero." Raoul's existence depended entirely on his ambition, and he was so eager to reach the top that he fired his partners without feeling, and he deserted his night-club in Paris to enlist in the Belgian army in the World War as a publicity stunt. When the war was over, Raoul tried to start again, but his lungs were weak, and his partner was drunk on the opening night. Helen, a former partner of his who had left him when he confessed that joining-up was not an unselfish act, agrees to dance the Bolero with...
Thus all I can hope to do is show that such ridiculous criticism is really only a "publicity stunt" on their part, and in the future all readers will regard such articles just as we would a communistic periodical. . . .And, too, we must excuse the act, since it is just a time in these young men's lives when their glandular secretions in their brains are slightly abnormal, and they are not fully responsible for their actions. . . . Herbert R. Brown...