Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania, was propagandizing among his colleagues for an Anti-Mothball Society. Motto: DON'T SLOW UP. Last week the Society had more than a score of participating churches, busy not only in organizing steady services but in promoting an inter-church tennis tournament, an employment agency, weekly interdenominational stunt nights. At St. Stephen's stunt night the Anti-Mothball unit ceremoniously dumped bags of mothballs over the floor of the Community House, recited a funeral ode. Energetic Dr. Hart also found time to play left field in twelve games last month with his semiprofessional baseball team, Jack Hart...
Many a fantastic tale was told of the late William J. Fallen, debonair, daring, egotistical criminal defender for many of Manhattan's biggest racketeers two decades ago. None was more fantastic than Fallon's reputed stunt of gulleting a bottle of poison, completing his argument to the jury, sauntering out of the court and then rushing frantically to a private room where waiting doctors cleaned him out with a stomach pump...
When Preacher Lee mounted his pulpit he cried, "This is not a publicity stunt." Photographers' bulbs flashed in his face. "What I mean," he continued, "is that there is a real purpose behind my preaching. If it brings publicity which will bring converts to the faith, then all is well." While a crowded, sandwich-munching congregation gawped, Preacher Lee launched his sermon, using no notes, expounding God and Christ chapter by chapter from the Bible. He was still in Genesis when the dietitian brought him dinner, which afforded a digression. "I never liked spinach. . . . And I never liked turnips...
This service was first established on some special trains on the Berlin-Hamburg run. Whether it is still being used I am unable to say, but it was by no means a stunt like the conversation between London, England and tram running from Montreal to Chicago which you mention in your article. The intention of the German Railroads was to establish a regular service...
Amid the general chorus of approval there were several bitter notes. Snapped Amy Johnson Mollison, sailing from Manhattan where she had been training for the flight: "It is not a stunt flight, and I don't agree with your Commerce Department ruling. They are very far behind the times. . . . The ruling is as good as saying that flying is not safe." Minister Cot managed to remain gracious, denied that he would try to arrange a race to Paris from Buenos Aires or Canada...