Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bennett Biscuit Co. was changed to Wheatsworth Inc.; two years ago it was sold to National Biscuit Co. for $5,300,000 in N. B. stock. A prime advertising stunt of Mr. Bennett's was the Wheatsworth "Gingerbread Castle" at Hamburg, N. J., designed by Joseph Urban after the opera Hansel & Gretel, visited by 500,000 people yearly...
...blatant personality boy. He creates an impression of hard-fisted strength coupled to the right amount of feeling without resorting to the Clark Gable sneer or the Buddy Rogers grin. "Sky Bride," now showing at the Metropolitan Theatre, finds him in a congenial, if unimportant role of a stunt aviator who kills a pal in an accident and then waits around until a Hollywood climax pops up when he can remain his nerve and once more become an "eagle...
...Zachary Taylor Miller; in Noble County, Okla. A towering Negro . . ." (TIME, April 18). I have Col. Zack T. Miller's letter for a suggested correction. I quote: "Bill Pickett would weigh about 170 Ib. and was 5 ft. 10 in. high and was the originator of the bulldogging stunt (not bulldozing). This nigger was one of the best hands that was ever on this place and up to the time he died would rather jump off a good horse onto a wild steer than eat a square meal. I had him with me in London...
...Cook one evening last week, or it might have been a physicist's laboratory. It was crowded with odd-shaped pieces of apparatus. Wires ran over the floor. Leon Theremin, the Russian who makes music out of radio static, was back again, to demonstrate new elaborations of his stunt...
...Stroheim plays the role, with obvious relish. Before assuring his actors that they are addle-headed and incompetent, he removes his checked coat, folds it carefully and throws it on the ground. He twists his leading lady's wrists when he suspects her of liking one of his stunt flyers and then rubs corrosive acid on the control wires of that pilot's plane. At this point, the esprit de corps of the stunt flyers*?three pilots who belonged to the same unit in France?reasserts itself. One (Robert Armstrong) against whom the director has no grudge, takes...