Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Watching from Washington and smelling a stunt, Maritime Commission admirals did not know whether to spank the upstarts or praise them. With characteristic deftness, the Kaisers had delivered the Joe Teal, the 75th Liberty ship from Oregon Shipbuilding Co.'s yard, on the eve of the anniversary of the first Liberty launchings, a day set aside by President Roosevelt for a "Salute to the Victory Fleet." The Kaisers swore nothing had been sacrificed in making their record. A stunt they had done, but not an impossible stunt with modern methods of shipbuilding in which the beginning is not really...
...evening when Diana Barrymore was 19, and the youngest, most submerged guest at a sedate dinner, she was suddenly observed to be eating her soup from a standing position. It wasn't a stunt; it was a natural and innocent way of bringing the gathering into proper focus. Father John Barrymore and Mother Michael Strange were divorced when Diana was seven. From seven to twelve she was entombed in a Parisian convent school. She subsequently attended the Garrison-Forest School near Baltimore, which nearly went out of business once when Father John paid her a call. She also...
...Scorching. The National Safety Council, usually concerned with automobile safety (auto deaths recently dropped 11%), issued safety instructions to the million-plus new bicycle riders. Points: obey traffic laws; ride single file on right with traffic; don't zigzag; don't stunt; don't hitch rides on other vehicles; don't carry passengers on the handle bars; don't race cars; use the bell; remember arm signals; carry packages in a basket...
Quiet Birdman. Stocky, nerveless Jimmy Doolittle set at least a dozen speed records, owns almost all the important aviation trophies. But he is far more than a speed and a stunt flyer. Doolittle has been a ceaseless air experimenter: in 1929 he made the first complete blind flight. A second lieutenant in World War I, he chafed at being kept at San Diego as an instructor. He was an early member of the Quiet Birdmen, the group of flyers who set themselves apart from the kiwi, an almost, extinct flightless bird, and from the "modock," legendary aviation term...
...Mussolini and Foreign Minister Count Ciano, it is said, arranged a little stunt to impress U.S. Ambassador William Phillips, who was about to return to Washington to report on Italian conditions. While the Duce was receiving the Ambassador, Count Ciano rushed in with a cooked-up piece of good news: "Duce! Duce! Twenty-eight ships loaded with wheat have just arrived . . . our granaries are simply bursting. Where can we put all this wheat...