Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Florence Reed, actress: "To 'decide a wager,' I dressed up in the old woman make-up that I wear in The Lullaby and collected 28? by begging on the streets outside the Knickerbocker Theatre, Manhattan. As a result of the publicicity which attended this stunt, I received a letter from the West Side Gospel Mission stating that 28? was sufficeint to buy a loaf of bread and a pail of coal. My press agent was quick to announce that I sent the 28? to the mission, plus a check for $25, 'to show she was as well...
...motives are simple. They are not, as George F. Babbitt ignorantly supposes, an " advertising stunt" for Hershey almond bars. Mr. Hershey was a poor boy. He had no education. He learned a trade and made a fortune out of it. He has no children. Now he would like to give an opportunity to as many boys as possible to make fortunes for themselves. Girls he does not provide for, on the ground that they can always get married or do housework, and so find homes. "Girls don't need help like boys," said he, " so I decided on boys." Boys...
...similar laws; still others have laws of greater stringency. In California and Connecticut aeroplanes must be licensed and must carry registration numbers at least three feet in height. A large number of states, from Maine to Oregon, require that operators be licensed, and in Maine and some other jurisdictions stunt flying is barred except under certain special conditions...
Next morning the Special arrived at Cedar City and the party took a 130-mile automobile ride through Zion National Park. The roads were bad; the alkali dust and the heat were terrific, and the party on the whole was miserable. The trip was a " press agent" stunt for the park, engineered by Senator Smoot and the Union Pacific Railroad (according to Mr. Kent). According to Mr. Kent, also, Senator Smoot's complacent smile "was well calculated to raise the blood pressure...
...platform meetings Friday and Saturday Dr. H. S. Coffin, Hon, '22, delivered the principal addresses. Tonight the various delegations will offer specialty acts for the stunt night program...