Word: stunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more outrageous the stunt, the more the Mexicans love it. Last week's gag: forcing contestants to sing with a mouthful of mush and peanuts...
...stunt might work. Even pre-atom explosives can toss fragments fast enough (1½ miles a second) to free them from the moon's puny pull. Some scientists believe that meteors continually knock chips from the moon's jagged mountains; the chips then head for the center of the earth and fall near the equator as fused, glassy blobs called "tektites...
...received a telegram and shipping bill saying that the statue was about to arrive. My letter, not given to the press, said that the statue was unacceptable, and if dumped on the City would be used as fill in a reclamation project. The whole thing was a cheap advertising stunt on the part of the radio program, and a feeble but expensive practical joke by this station on the veteran. Incidentally, as we expected, the statue was mutilated when it arrived, the head having been broken off the body. No doubt we might have said nothing and have embarrassed...
...veteran stunt flyer, Paul Mantz is no novice at making money on war-weary aircraft. His United Air Services, Ltd. already owns 22 flyable World War I planes, rents them to movie companies. He also runs a charter service out of Los Angeles from which he has taken in some $2,000,000 since...
Robert Moses, New York's panjandrum park commissioner, who has sounded off on just about everything and been righteously rude to just about everybody, let loose his Mosaic thunders at a small-statured victim. A stunt radio program had persuaded one of its audience-Lieut. Colonel William M. Hendrix-to model a figure of his wife, his first attempt at sculpture (see cut) and present it to the park system. Said bad-tempered Moses: "I can think of nothing more unwelcome than your gift of the bronze, life-size statue of The Ideal American Wife. I say this unhesitatingly...