Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cincinnati three weeks ago pious citizens, as an evangelical stunt, spent 16 hr., 40 min. spelling each other through a continuous reading-aloud of the entire New Testament (TIME, March 27). Last week Cincinnati's City Council listened to a like reading of all 659 pages of the city's ordinances...
Fortnight ago, the 1933 National Air Races were sublet to Los Angeles by Cleveland, the city which has control over them for the next eight years but was glad to get rid of them for a spell because they were costing too much money. The meet, stripped of usual stunt exhibits and daredeviltry, will be held July...
...pious stunt introduced in an evangelistic campaign, the Cincinnati Bible-reading was so timed that Old & New Testaments, within and without North Presbyterian Church, would be finished simultaneously by nightfall. It took 16 hr. 40 min. to read the Bible's 66 books, 1,189 chapters, 31,173 verses, 773,746 words, 3,566,480 letters...
...interesting nor original. And who can wonder at this, when a hundred odd undergraduates, representing a cross-section of the University, chose such a dilapidated and absolutely worthless hat as rests upon its plush cushion in Boston as the Master Hat of Harvard, the result of a recent publicity stunt of a local humorous publication? The layman of the street, and his wife, stare at the apparition in its pose of state, and with a burst of derisive laughter say, "Oh! So that's what Harvard is like, is it?" Does this speak well of the College...
Producers, union heads and an emergency committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences met at the Roosevelt Hotel. At Hollywood's United Airport, three planes piloted by members of the stunt flyers' union were waiting, in case union demands were not met, to fly over the studios with black trailers as a signal for union labor to quit. The hotel meeting became so excited that when it adjourned with nothing decided, no one remembered to notify the pilots. While the meeting continued later, in Producer Ben Schulberg's bungalow at Paramount, a smart stenographer found...