Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despatches asserted that a switchboard-operator serves all the de luxe sleeping compartments. She establishes the actual connection with other trains or with stations through a "wired-wireless" telephone instrument of allegedly new and secret construction. Telephone engineers noted that "train wireless" has been possible as a stunt for a decade or more. They learned with interest that the new German invention is said to have leaped into "paying popularity...
Obviously you don't know Cooke. I have known him for 20 years, since he left Andover. He is about the last man of my acquaintance to pull a publicity stunt of any kind, much less of the kind you suggest. I have never thought of him as a "shrewd" man; always as the most genial...
What was this name which she could not remember? The public soon found it out. Her name was Fraud, Charlatanism, Trickery, Guile, Deceit. She, one Alma Sioux Scarberry, employee of the New York Daily Mirror (Hearst), had been "planted" to play her role as a publicity stunt. The Daily Mirror was about to publish a serial novel by Elinor Glyn relating the adventures of the vanished British woman, Miss Levy. Hence the carefully arranged passport pictures, the initials, the English money, in the fraud's vanity-case. Hence the dastardly clever reference to Elinor Glyn. Next day the Mirror publicly...
...little guaranty under such strain that it will remain intact over considerable distances. The airplane game depends greatly at present upon the flying ability of the man in the pilot's seat. Our daily trips to Chicago and Cleveland are about 90% skill of the men at the throttle. Stunt flying, as I see it, is about 98% of the same element...
...Nick Gibson, publicity man, retracted a suit for $1,500 damages in which he claimed having originated the trial for a "stunt." The city commissioners of Dayton settled with Gibson out of court...