Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James Henry Roberts Cromwell, 36, handsome son of socialite Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, sparring partner (as a stunt) of Heavyweight Tommy Loughran, good friend of Joseph Hergesheimer, vice president of Peerless Motor Co., published a book about current economic evils called The Voice of Young America (Scribner- $1.00). Said he: "I'm not a radical like Corliss Lamont. I'm a capitalist, but not their kind. I can see a lot more peril from the right wingers than from the left. I don't condemn people who have earned their wealth by giving something in return. Henry...
...went to the big city. They appeared at the dinner in store clothes with faces bright & shining. Vexed, Matt Brush would not let them sing. He and jovial Speculator Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith, upon whom the quartet had also made a profound impression and who had helped finance the stunt, were deeply disappointed over the whole business...
...only lost a few dollars on the whole business. After the dance last night fifteen of us got together and went the rounds of all the Houses and the Yard, delivering a paper under each door. The whole affair is a great success. It is admittedly a publicity stunt...
...Yale Law School have united to order to give a four year course in which law and business problems are correlated. The new plan which demands a year in New Haven, a year in Cambridge, and the final two years in New Have, appears superficially to be a publicity stunt. The transaction is certainly good ballyhoo for the enrollment of the two schools. But Harvard Law School students can spend a year in the Business School and be taking practically the same courses in the Harvard-Yale plan. They would only miss the correlation seminars...
...tricks of press-agentry which Authors Wilson Mizner and Robert Lord have thought up for Cagney, even the few which are carefully outlined, can scarcely be considered monuments of ingenuity. The best is his stunt of advertising a vanishing cream, which does not vanish, as a fat remover, on the assumption that purchasers will lose weight trying to rub it in. Unlike Lee Tracy's somewhat similar picture, The Half Naked Truth, Hard to Handle depends less upon journalistic exaggerations about an exciting profession than upon the personality of its principal. Cagney, talking and galloping a little faster than...