Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...copy of the Daily Mail on his person; other British papers made similar offers. Two years ago. under Lord Rothermere (Northcliffe's successor-brother) the Daily Mail paid out ?50,000 when half a dozen of its insurees were killed in a wreck. Whether the stunt will now become a feature of U. S. Life is problematical...
...name, not her character, may have been borrowed from the Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) who went around the world in 72 days, 6 hr. II min., as a stunt for the New York World...
...barred from both public and Catholic schools because he has a bass voice, smokes, has to shave, is as strong as a grown man. He can lift persons bulking 250 lb., 200-lb. dumbbells, can push without strain a lawn roller, or an automobile filled with passengers. Prime stunt: lifting Jack Dempsey when Dempsey scaled 202 lb. Born normal, Clarence Jr. continued so until 9 mos. old. Between 9 mos. and 3½ years he grew ten years physically in all things except height. When 4½ he was physically...
...tricks of shooting people through telephone receivers, kniving them by lynx-eyed orientals, or burning them with vats of green acid no longer provide their old thrill. Audiences yawn. The old stunt of indicating the degree of hauntedness of house by having a darky groan "Oh Lawdy, Lawdy" simply wore itself...
...days, with his loops that nearly cut the grass. Even more spectacular than the solo events were the tricks of the Navy's High Hat and Red Ripper squadrons from the Lexington; the Army's crack First Pursuit Squadron from Self ridge Field; and the Quantico Marines. Most novel stunt: three Navy Boeings, wing to wing, flopping over as one plane in a "formation barrel-roll...