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Word: stunting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mars, Inc.-candy), and even in Washington (whither Gracie flew from Hollywood to attend the Women's National Press Club dinner and announce her convention: in Omaha, May 15-18), was a new twist to an old Gracie Allen stunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ccmdidette | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...contest will go down in Eli history without a doubt as a typical example of the do-or-die Yayul spirit. It was Cobb, the short blond Eli forward, who pulled a Frank Meriwell stunt with five seconds to go, sinking the tying points with a one handed shot which traveled almost half the length of the floor...

Author: By John C. Robbins, | Title: QUINTET OVERSOME BY BULLDOGS, 55-52 | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...Latest Ledger promotion stunt is a limerick contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cary Me Bok | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...quite inspired and thrilled at the news in the Herald that "tree sitting" has supplanted goldfish consumption as a prize stunt at Harvard University. So here's to better and greater "tree sitters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 2/8/1940 | See Source »

...husband were living near the Wilcox place at Short Beach, Conn. Her witty book obviously owes much to Critic Van Wyck Brooks, with whom she corresponded-though Brooks disagreed with her somewhat unguarded conclusions. There is more than morbid fascination in Period Piece, more than a stunt in Biographer Ballou's reason for doing it: "It may be because critics have been squeamish about penetrating the subliterary world that literature is not at a generally higher level in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetess of Passion | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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