Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grubby street in Lodz, Poland, Lord Beaverbrook's stunt-loving London Daily Express tracked down a grey-bearded rabbi, proved that the rabbi was brother to Russia's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff. For 100 zlotys ($1,900) Rabbi Yankel Vallach talked. His brother, said he, was born Meyer Moses Vallach, was a pious Jew until Tsarist police clapped him into jail. There he met Bolsheviks Kamenev and Zinoviev, turned Communist, atheist. Released, he was made the fat-salaried manager of a sugar factory. He almost forgot his Communism but police jailed him again for helping...
...Warner) is an investigation of perhaps the only branch of the U. S. flying service that has hitherto escaped the attention of the cinema- aviators of the U. S. Marine Corps. A hard-boiled lieutenant (Pat O'Brien) gruffly supervises the training of a cocky stunt pilot (James Cagney). By the time the stunt pilot's initiation is over, he has acquired a thorough knowledge of formation flying, traces of esprit de corps, the undivided attention of his superior officer's intended fiancee (Margaret Lindsay...
...foreword expressing effusive thanks gives the picture a patina of spurious patriotism which helps sell it to the public. In Devil Dogs, first Cosmopolitan production released since the Hearst cinema producing organization was transferred from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to Warner, these advantages, combined with some of the most exciting stunt flying seen in the cinema since Hell's Angels, were correctly deemed sufficient to compensate for the lack of anything which might be construed as an original narrative. Best shot: an aviator purporting to be James Cagney, but actually one of the anonymous stunt flyers who helped make Devil...
Father Coughlin: "Our thanks are due to Almighty God. . . ." Publisher Hearst preened himself on a legislative victory and a great journalistic stunt by taking a full page in Hearst-papers to print the names and faces of all 36 Senators who voted down the Court...
...Maxwell gave them, somebody else paid for them. After the crash, she returned to Manhattan via Hollywood, to cash in on her amazing reputation. Last week she had a job organizing the floor show of a Manhattan night club. Same day as the dream party, she organized a publicity stunt for the night club out of the latest fad of European socialites: levitation...