Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days at the defense of Malta), and peacetime flying mercenary; in a plane crash at Urbe airfield, Rome, while en route to fly in Palestine. He won his discharge shortly after D-day in 1944 (said the R.C.A.F.: "Beurling has already done his part. . ."). He found peacetime bush-piloting, stunt flying and insurance selling too tame ("I guess I'll have to go and find another war"), bargained with both Arabs and Jews before taking Haganah's offer...
...Senator's constitutional rights to bar him from any door because of his color, indicated that the fight would be carried to the Supreme Court. Judge Oliver Hall fined the Senator $50, sentenced him to 180 days in jail, suspended the sentence, then grumped: "This is a publicity stunt and had it been left to me, I never would have tried the case...
Sweet Words. In San Francisco, newspaper readers got their first whiff of a scented sales stunt. The Emporium department store and Bombi Perfumer, Inc. had printers mix Black Magic perfume with the ink for their full-page perfume ads. Result: Emporium sold out its stock of Black Magic in less than...
...past, lively campaigning has been frowned on, because many Councilmen were afraid that elections would degenerate into orgies of pure ballyhoo, featuring everything from strip-teasers to stunts in the Applegate tradition. Vigorous electioneering, however, would appear to be the only method of awakening the latent undergraduate interest in Council activities. Campaigns for the Student Council need no more be extravagant than dull, or non-existent. Voters would probably be more inclined to favor a candidate who runs on his record and takes stands on issues than a man who swallows goldfish or chalks his name on College buildings...
Because Picasso's vision was predominantly sculptural, his new rules had mostly to do with form. He thought it might be interesting to break up the forms in nature and rearrange them on canvas-cubism. Matisse was most excited by colors; he did roughly the same kaleidoscope stunt with them-and took art back to the days of the Byzantines and medieval monks, whose flat, glowing illuminations symbolized instead of trying to counterfeit reality...