Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dana). The story has probably been told before of the tight-rope walker who displayed his talent in private life and rescued a beleaguered heroine. This particular walker walked a telegraph wire into a burning building to complete the rescue. Previously he had refused to perform a certain difficult stunt in the circus and was branded a coward. The circus scenes are fair, the climax exciting, and the whole picture dangerously close to average...
...Yesterday a freakish stunt, today it is a mode of travel.... One should equally avoid the appearance of mendicancy and that of prosperity . . . don't wait to be invited to ride . . . walk on the wrong side of the road. ... It is bad ethics for a man to ask women motorists for a ride. However, it is permissible to look at them in an interrogative way, and if the ride is then proffered, it would be impolite to refuse...
...trustful soul who is in the habit of drawing to three card flushes and who likes to drag them blind will probably feel the urge to accept the Metropolitan's latest publicity stunt invitation to "Take a Chance" this week. At least there is no harm in trying for those who are always lucky and not over particular. The element of suspense is worth the price of admission. The management generously took us on the inside, after we had patiently seen out the mystery, and as it stands your best friend won't tell you. After all God doesn...
...been refused admittance voiced its displeasure at the undue length of this overture by stamping its feet and clapping its hands long before the conductor had given the final wave of his baton. No steps were taken by the Tremont officials to evict the originators of this original stunt, nor did the burly arm of the law interpose to silence the whistles and catcalls that encouraged Mr. Fairbanks to greater amatory efforts...
Observers hoped that the "stunt craze" which has swept Germany of late may abate before this official restraint. Heretofore the "endurance artists" have earned much pelf as a drawing card for the curious at cafés, night clubs, beer gardens...