Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paintings went on show last week celebrating the eccentric, Slavic, bucolic conceits of Marc Chagall, a 51-year-old Russian with a flair for flowery dreams. Typical: Inspiration, showing a youth playing a fiddle with one hand while kneeling on the back of a deer. This is no mean stunt, and as a reward a Christmasy angel is presenting him with a bouquet. Behind is calm blue water with a calm blue couple in a rowboat...
...newspaper is complete without its sprinkling of wartime poetry. No battle is too insignificant, no soldier's deed too small to be unworthy of recording in the stylized, form-bound Japanese lyrics. Under this stimulus, the soldiers themselves have turned to writing poetry, and a favorite Japanese magazine stunt is to hold contests for soldier-poets...
...nothing is worse than a drunken Indian. In the unpublished correspondence of old Jim Bridger there is, in fact, a statement to the effect that "there's nuthin' wuss'n a drunk Injun." This fact is still incontestable today. More generally, it has been scientifically proved that hard spirits stunt growth; that continual imbibing results in deterioration of character; and that back of every criminal there lies an empty bottle. Furthermore, it is an obvious fact that inebriation releases inhibitions and arouses passions, thus frequently leading to unfortunate situations...
...single, win by pairing with a player of the opposite sex, moving up to goal marked The Altar. Cards rather than dice determine moves. If a pair draw cards marked "Edward" and "Wallis," they move ahead fast; if they draw "Canterbury," they are "sent into exile." As a promotion stunt Miss Davis recently sent a box of Love to the Archbishop of Canterbury. This week, according to a columnist in London's Daily Express, she got his answering letter. "It was a model of frigidity...
...broadcast by trained dogs from a kennel at Worplesdon, run by a Mr. and Mrs. Robert Montgomery. The program called for the Montgomerys to put their dogs through a set of paces and commands considered generally familiar to most well-behaved British dogs. As an audience participating stunt, "Calling All Dogs" proved a yelping success...