Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Buxom, blonde, Nordic Fraulein Rasche came to the U. S. to exhibit her able stunt flying, to fly back across the Atlantic. For many weeks, she had been haunting the flying fields, quarreling with her unnamed backers, posing for photographs. A green and red Bellanca was ready for her trans-Atlantic hop, yet not available until additional safety devices should be installed. Fraulein Rasche fretted, pouted for the press...
Included in the program of the conference are many lighter diversions to break up the serious work of the meeting. Athletics will be participated in each afternoon, with Coach William Wood of Wesleyan in charge. Baseball, swimming, and tennis are planned. Music and stunt performances also play a part in the conference program...
Young, pretty, impulsive, utterly reckless, Thea Rasche, Germany's crack lady stunt-flier, arrived here last week and repaired at once to Curtiss Field, there to inspect a Stinson Detroiter monoplane in which she plans to fly to Germany...
...think it would be a "good stunt" for TIME to publish the line-up of the All American High School Basket Ball Team for 1928. Here you will again find Ashland, Kentucky, well represented, with Ellis Johnson who is called the "greatest high school basket ball general" being the unanimously elected captain...
...echoes. Discontented citizens took up the accusation. A feeling that aviation was unscrupulous, newspapers debased, that the public had been hoaxed, even that Charles Augustus Lindbergh had lent a hand to this nefarious business sprang up. Letters poured in to the newspapers demanding explanations. Was it just a publicity stunt? Why was not the serum used, if it was needed? Why did it have to be sent dramatically from Manhattan by air when Montreal was known as a great medical centre? What was the pretty touch about sending the white mice...