Word: stunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Special note must be made of the Princeton "half-time stunt." The public address system listed some eight organizations as sponsors and perpetrators of the gag. It concerned a model building, Santa Claus, two tigers, some funny money, and the clangings of a cash register...
...stunt resolved into a none-too-subtle suggestion that well heeled alumni should share the wealth with Princeton. Crimson rooters were befuddled by the whole affair because at a distance, one of the tigers looked very much like a whiskerless rodent...
Threatened aerial invasion from the northlands degenerated into a publicity stunt yesterday...
...most famous Gould stunt has been the eight-year-old How America Lives series, in which the Journal not only reports on "typical" families in vast detail, but also fixes up their kitchens, their budgets (which never mention anything spent for liquor) or their personalities-whichever is in worst repair. They like to say that their readers are a jump ahead of them; the fact is that the Journal is out to educate women just as fast as it can, while rattling many a social skeleton in public...
...Touch of Venus (Universal-International) is a free movie translation of the sprightly Broadway musical written by Ogden Nash and S. J. Perelman* (TIME, Oct. 18, 1943). When a pretty statue (Ava Gardner) is imported into a department store as a publicity stunt, a kiss from a shy window decorator (Robert Walker) melts the cold marble into ardent flesh. The living Venus has arms and some interesting ideas about using them. Her timid swain is mainly interested in 1) persuading her to go back to work as an objet d'art, and 2) placating his landlady, his girl...