Word: stunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blues, was the captain of the ship; he had small part in the decision reached by Lieut. Colonel James H. Doolittle (at his side) and Vice Admiral William F. Halsey (aboard the nearby carrier Enterprise) to fly 16 B-25 medium bombers off the Hornet for the first stunt raid on Japan's capital...
...Hody Lamarr is the most beautiful woman in the world is a debatable point; she certainly is not the actress Ingrid Bergman was in the same part. Charles Boyer tried to drive Ingrid mad in "Gaslight" to gain her wealth. Similarly accented Paul Lukas tries to pull the same stunt in "Experiment Perilous," but with no apparent motive. Almost as a trick ending, it develops that a page has been substituted in this carbon copy: Lukas is mentally unsound, which doesn't really change much...
...unseen as seen: he played all the parts in a populous, fast-talking skit whose cast of characters covered half a dozen nationalities, two sexes, assorted ages, and a corner of the animal kingdom. It was a good trick, and at least fresher than his repeat performance of the stunt that originally made him a star...
Parachute jumping, which titillated county fairgoers 25 years ago, has become routine. Another hair-raising stunt which was once thought too risky even to try may soon become just as routine. The Army Air Forces is now picking men off the ground by plane...
...A.A.F.'s experimenters at Wright Field started working on the stunt four years ago. A plane dangling a nylon rope and a hook on the end of a long pole snatched 50-lb. dummies off the ground. Then a sheep was tried. The first one was hauled into the plane with its neck broken. The process was gentled until experimenters were finally ready to try the trick on a man. Lieut. Alex Doster volunteered...