Word: stunts
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...Army considers 14 miles a day good speed, 16 miles exceptional. There have been few more spectacular marches. During the siege of Gergovia, Caesar's men marched 50 miles in one day, fought a battle, marched back next day; but that one was an overnight stunt. Napoleon's crack Imperial Guard marched 33 miles a day for 13 days in the campaign against Prussia, 1806. World's record for sustained marching belongs to Alexander, who after the Battle of Arbela, 331 B.C., pushed his infantry 36½ miles a day for eleven days...
...band is a unique stunt, but except as a stunt it doesn't add new luster to Mr. Bechet, who is already a first-rate hot soprano saxophonist...
...said slyly when he first heard the news: "The maggot is in the apple.") delayed reporting to Parliament on the Hess incident. Then Labor Minister Ernest Bevin declared roundly: "I don't believe Hitler did not know Hess was coming to England. ... I have seen this kind of stunt over and over again. I am not going to be deceived by any of them. From my point of view Hess is a murderer. He is no man I would ever negotiate with...
...well-known prank concerning a glass of warm water seems to have been perpetrated on my roommate, Murray Lampert, last Friday night. Unfortunately, Murray has convinced himself that he is General Krivitsky, and has therefore transformed what was perhaps an ill-advised stunt into a fabric of international intrigue...
...High-pressure hog Bernie Kamber now spread his unwanted presence across the supper table, and kept looking up between mouthfulls for any 'stunt' which might publicise his beautiful guinea pig," and observer said. His chance came when CRIMSON editors appeared between say, Ritz diners bearing a moulting canary bird, incarnate soul of the sacred lbis. Many eye witnesses claim that at this point, Kamber seized the helpless bird, wrung its neck, put it on a large china plate and made Marjorie eat it as Boston photographers clicked their flash bulbs madly...