Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope that such editorials as appeared in the CRIMSON the other day do not have the effect of making the public believe that that is the belief of every student in the university. . . . It is merely a publicity stunt that they feel is necessary when their glorified bulletin begins to sink into the throes of oblivion. A picture of the editorial room of such an institution at the aforementioned promise of oblivion is one in which all the responsible writers gather to see what criticism will have the most far-reaching effects. You see, I am really excusing the action...
This movie begins with a burial service for the hero, a director's stunt devised not only to rob the audience of its just reward but to rehabilitate and glorify the old-time cut back under the banner "Narratage," "Narratage," however, is more than stunt; it is a diabolical infliction. Henry, Caspar Milquetoast apologist to Mr. Tom Garner, explains to his wife that Tom Garner explains to his wife that Tom Garner was more than a Legree, more than the faithless, cruci, relentless devil, whose feet the world licked, whose name the world cursed. And where Henry's spirit listeth...
Lest anyone think that getting married in an airplane is a publicity stunt peculiar to the 20th Century, Sportsman Pilot for August (out last week; published an article, "Matches Made in the Heavens,'' proving that the aerial wedding stunt is something like 100 years old. Publicly-loving couples of the 19th Century used to get married in balloons decked with satin, festooned with ribbons and banners. Historians of these phenomena are Mrs. Bella C. Landauer, Manhattan bibliophile and only important woman collector of aeronauticana, and Harry Bischoff Weiss, associate editor of the American Book Collector...
...fund with which to build the $250,000 Streets of Paris on the World's Fair's Midway. A good part of the U. S. public has now heard about the Streets of Paris. Some 800,000 sightseers have already been there. The artist's model stunt was repeated, although the young lady now wears a bit more than she did at the opening two months ago. There is a Folies-Bergère show, a glimpse of a Colonie Nudiste through a keyhole (you see your own head on a painted naked body), beer saloons called...
...months Ballyhoo reached its astounding peak, 1,900.000. Last week Ballyhoo celebrated its second birthday. Circulation: "about 300,000." Best evidence that the magazine still makes money is the fact that foxy Publisher George T. Delacorte Jr. continues to publish it. His stable shelters no boarders. Ballyhoo continues the stunt-which it has worn threadbare-of poking fun at advertisers, but in desultory fashion. Now it is largely a funny-picture book, and, if anything, less salacious than at birth. Such paid advertising as it can get, it takes, burlesqued or not. Of the crop of imitators which sprang...