Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...planned a dairy products combination on a scale that would have pleased even Paul Bunyan.* Contrary to downtown Manhattan legend, President McInnerney does not sit at his desk munching Kraft-Phenix cheese all day and quaffing Sheffield milk. The quaffing and munching at directors' meetings are only a stunt. Mr. McInnerney's office is a luxurious, paneled room containing much Florentine leather. Next to his interest in music (one of Mrs. McInnerney's closest friends is Soprano Queena Mario), Mr. McInnerney's favorite indulgence is the collection of Florentine furniture. His Fifth Avenue apartment...
...grandest spectacles ever witnessed is to take place in the air; papers will round out a week of sweeping headlines, as the aetherial swarm completes its tour of the middle and Eastern United States. Few can realize the tremendous details of organization; even less will consider that this grand stunt is costing millions of the taxpayers' dollars, in a time of greatest depression...
...electorate. He was just somebody to "beat Thompson." From a mule boy in Illinois coal mines, he had climbed up through the trucking business to be Chicago's Democratic boss. His campaign was quiet, dignified, uninspiring. He always referred to Thompson as "His Honor," used no epithets, refused to stunt for the crowds. Behind him he had a unified Democracy and uncounted thousands of Republicans sick of "Big Bill...
...information of those interested, I wish to state that the names of the Rotary clubs were used without their permission and without the knowledge of the club officers. The clubs had taken no part in the suggested stunt which was given such wide publicity but on the contrary have been taking the initiative in seeing that surplus eggs are distributed to the needy...
...stunt, Explorer Thomas' journey was the fruit of years of long preparation and residence in Arabia. For years he has served as Wazir & Finance Minister to the Sultan of Muscat. He has mastered tribal dialects, made many a trial trip beyond the fringe of water-holes...