Word: stunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picket protest. By the third day, when she had got down to black satin brassière and panties, the producers summoned Miss Rozan to inform her that if she would cease they would try to fit her face back in the film. Hollywood verdict: best all-round publicity stunt of the season...
...publicity stunt, Safeway's refusal to go along on the increased markup was in line with a basic policy laid down by its industrious. 130-lb. president, Lingan Alan Warren. "When you get wide spreads you are vulnerable," Warren once said. "That is why Safeway does not believe in making too much profit on any one thing." It was also, as events turned out, insurance that Safeway need feel no qualms when Thurman Arnold's men get to Colorado...
...delegates who delivered the petition were the same group who sponsored the between-the-halves stunt at the Yale Bowl, in which a caricature figure of the President conductng a military drill all by himself had his gun snatched away from him by "John Harvard 1941," and a chemical retort substituted in its stead...
...President Roosevelt smelled it, felt himself powerless in the face of passive reactionary opposition, and interested the nation in foreign affairs. The effect was good. Americans forgot their own disordered houses in their scurry to see the other fellow's mess. Mussolini and Hitler resorted to the same stunt when they felt themselves powerless. A militarist nation lasts for a few years and dies; the spirit of religion lives...
...fill out the bill, a variety of ten-minute side-kicks are shown. They include a nifty Donald Duck and some sad items on stunt-men and sealions. Also a weird pot-pourri on the history of the Academy Award, which gives tid-bits from the cinematic wows since '28. It doesn't seem to prove much, but it's interesting...