Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself. Back in Iraq, he bought one flashy car after another-among others a supercharged, 150-horsepower Auburn with three-inch royal crowns on its doors, a Mercedes done in phosphorescent paint. Before long his craving for speed got him into the air, where he loved to stunt. He took delivery last month on a 200-m.p.h. British plane...
Three months ago convivial L. M. Parton, secretary of the Nocona Chamber of Commerce, conceived a publicity stunt. His idea: a 2,000-mile pony express race from his little (pop. 2,352) North Texas leather-manufacturing town to San Francisco, to tie Nocona to the tail of the Golden Gate International Exposition...
...stunt is never so startling the second time, and The Hot Mikado, though much more audacious than the Federal Theatre version, suffers from tagging at its heels. Further, when the Swing Mikado is willing to let itself go, it becomes a gayer and more abandoned romp. But simply as a show, The Hot Mikado wins hands down. It is gaudy, glittering, foot-wise, fast. It spurns Gilbert & Sullivan's Savoy operas for Harlem's Savoy ballroom. It is less profitably compared with the Swing Mikado than with such spirited colored shows as Blackbirds of 1928, Shuffle Along...
Business's new concept of public relations as exemplified by Johns-Manville is an operating philosophy rather than a promotional stunt, actually changing business management instead of just lifting its face. Its basis is the discovery that good public relations begin at home, that Business can "sell itself" permanently to the U. S. public only by developing leaders whose comprehension of public relations is as mature as their knowledge of their particular trades...
Chase's Front. Mr. Stuart Chase, who has progressed from conservation to semantics to world politics, has digested all the best arguments for isolationism and illustrated them with a new stunt in The New Western Front ($1.50). The Europeans will always fight, he argues, so long as they are divided into 28 nations, and he sharpens his point picturesquely by dividing the U. S. into 20 governments-with Delta fearsomely protecting the Mississippi River corridor that splits resentful Blue Grass, with Yellowstone desperately trying to solve the financial muddle of three kinds of sponduliks...