Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angels began before the movies were old enough to talk. Producer Hughes spent a third and part of a fourth million to put voices and sounds into his production. No detail was considered too minute for meticulous attention. Hughes himself is a licensed pilot able to perform almost every stunt for which he paid his flyers. He drives a motor car fast but keeps paint on his mudguards. He is fond of golf and Cinemactress Billie Dove, who recently acquired a nickel-plated Rolls-Royce...
...again added noteworthy items to the scroll of his work, viz: Six trips across the U. S., including the above record; opening two mail routes to South America (Miami-Paramaribo, Miami-Buenos Aires); air explorations of Indian ruins in New Mexico and Arizona, and Mayan ruins in Yucatan; stunt flying with the Navy's high hat squadron at the Cleveland air races; displaying how easy it is to learn to glide; flying altogether about 30,000 miles in all sorts of machines, in all sorts of weather-always safely, surely, incomparably...
Although the majority of Harvard was taken in by the reputed robbery of the Lampoon building, the return, as mysterious as the disappearance of the Ibis, has finally given the suspicion credence that the whole affair was merely a publicity stunt engendered by the Lampoon officers to advertise their forthcoming issue, The Tercentenary number...
...stunt flyer is Charles Augustus Lindbergh. It was for "pure experiment" last week that he and his small wife flew the 2,700 mi. from Glendale, Calif., to Roosevelt Field, L. I., with a 22 min. stop at Wichita, Kan. It took them only 14 hr.. 45 min., 32 sec., nearly three hours faster than any previous crossing of the U. S., but Col. Lindbergh deprecated efforts to credit him with breaking the record of Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks which, he pointed out, was a nonstop flight with a heavy fuel load. The Lindberghs held to levels between...
...newspapers periodically announce they will play down crime news-usually as a publicity stunt. The only consistently crimeless U. S. daily of any size: The Christian Science Monitor (132,058 circulation...