Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What annoyed Matt Mann most was the Kiphuth method of training swimmers in a gymnasium, the Kiphuth stunt of sitting on the bottom of the Yale pool in a diving helmet to observe his pupils from underneath...
Miss Enters, who has many times refused invitations to do her stunt in Boston, has just cime back from Spain. Her two dances are based on recent experiences in the war gone...
...William the Great." For the last nine years he has been preaching in his spare time, without much success. Last week, in Rochester, N. Y., his announcement that he would perform tricks (to help religion meet "pretty bad modern competition") filled his Volunteers chapel. Adjutant Plews's first stunt was to impersonate St. Paul in prison at Philippi, in padlocked chains and an unscriptural mail-sack. He prayed for God's aid, escaped in a couple of minutes from his bonds, informed his delighted congregation that so could they escape the fetters of sin if they appealed...
...investigate asylum conditions for an exposé of New York's politically controlled lunacy commission system. Sharp City Editor Amster Spiro had given him the assignment because Reporter Bernard had done some good sleuthing for the Journal before. But what was only a stunt for Editor Spiro turned out to be near-disaster for Reporter Bernard; last week he had to go to a private sanatorium to recover from his ordeal. Rested and relaxed, he will begin his ghastly story in the Journal and American next week...
...placards such as this appeared last week. Bean promotion appeared in newspaper advertisements, in radio blurbs, on roadside handbills. Some 200,000 well-drilled chain-store workers urged even illiterate housewives to buy jumbos, red kidneys, yellow eyes, chile or limas. This high pressure was no stunt. It was the latest application of a new economic device notably successful in its 15 previous tests. Its enthusiasts describe it as some-thing to put AAA to shame, for it works on the positive principle of reducing surpluses-not by reducing production but by increasing consumption...