Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sang at a night club. Here in Boston I spend my time studying voice. I am preparing to give a concert of American, folk-songs in the near future. Not those popular songs but semi-classical music. And then my publicity manager is always thinking up some fool publicity stunt to take up my time...
...entered the War? The reason the flyers themselves gave was that there was no flying field of equal facilities in the U. S. Such flyers commonly spent two weeks training on the Canadian fields before they went to France. Armour Heights was, I believe, rated as the finest stunt flying field on this continent for at least a couple of years. Certainly I have never seen more breath-taking stunts since than were done by the men who flew those machines which now seem so clumsy. Greater variety in stunting is of course now possible, due to better construction...
...Aviator (Warner). Credit for this belongs properly neither to its actors nor director but to Warner Brothers' technicians and cameramen who arranged the funny and highly exciting stunt flying that is the climax of the action. It is all about a timid novelist who, as the author of a work on aviation, has to go up in a plane for the first time in his life. In The Hottentot, Edward Everett Horton, able farceur of this piece, was a fake jockey whom the horses frightened more than anything else in the world. The Aviator is a rewrite...
...pumped directly from the company's springs in Waukesha, Wis. The scheme had been conceived by one Charles Welsh who had been given the springs by his uncle, but after several miles of pipe were laid, it was discovered that the cost was too great. Even without this brilliant stunt White Rock prospered. At first it had been sold only locally. Then a chance sample reached a Manhattan gambling hall owner who obtained a 50-year sales agency which the company later bought back. From then on White Rock's sales bubbled upward. In 1906 the present company bought Welsh...