Word: stunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ships. Marine Corps Major Joe Foss (26 Jap victims; Congressional Medal) arrived in a Grumman F4F. Major John Smith (19 victories; Congressional Medal) came in a Corsair. Navy Lieut. Stanley Vejtasa (ten victories; Navy Cross with two stars) dropped down in an F6F. Major Vincent ("Squeak") Burnett, champion stunt flyer and specialist in B-26 bombers, dusted in with one of the sleek Marauders...
Enters then the first Mrs. Carroll to explain to the second why she is weak in the knees: Painter Jory is slowly poisoning her so he can marry the widow. He had tried the same stunt when he wanted to marry Miss Bergner. This useful disclosure not only warns the invalid but wakes up the audience, and leads to some belated suspense and slow-motion horror...
Pretty, comical Lucille Ball, with her high pile of fiery hair, plays the movie queen who accepts an invitation to the Winsocki prom as a sound publicity stunt. This is immensely embarrassing to the kid (Tommy Dix), who never expected his invitation to be taken seriously, and to his girl friend (Virginia Weidler), who finds herself a wallflower while the cadet corps make Lucille the belle of a brawl. Before the end of it, she has been stripped to her slip by souvenir hunters and has ricocheted among as many closets as the heroines of French bedroom farce...
American airmen in Britain have matured in their understanding of war. They know that the July 4 raid last year was a spectacular stunt, more valuable in home headlines than in the Battle for Europe. The men of the Eighth await their real anniversary, which will not come until Aug. 17, one year from the day when American heavy bombers first flew into Occupied Europe...
Trickiest stunt Wolff used was to split a full-faced picture down the middle, reverse one half and match it with the same half by montage, so that the picture was composed of two right sides or two left. The right side, he found, tends to be dominant, gives the face its most characteristic expression (the mouth usually is most expressive...