Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...film also opened. Its idea is that earnest little girls are given a break in the big & naughty Scandals. Earnest Sally (Bessie Love) leaps from the chorus to save the show on the opening night, when the haughty star becomes temperamental. The star, ousted, tries to play a dastardly trick on Sally, but fails. Sally also has matrimonial difficulties, which are eventually solved by the kindly producer. . . . Miss Love is adequate; that...
That blatant vegetarian and seer, George Bernard Shaw, has never set foot in the U. S. and swears that he never will. Yet, last week, his face was seen and his voice was heard in Manhattan. The Movietone of the firm of William Fox accomplished the trick. Mr. Shaw was caught walking idly in his garden. Suddenly he stopped, faun-like, and looked into the camera as if it were just a jolly surprise. Then, with his beard close to the camera, he began to talk and confess to the public what a genial and gentle old fellow he really...
...When the Ringling circus gave up wild animal acts, because spectators often suspected cruelty to the animals, Mabel Stark was compelled to perform far less hazardous feats, such as descending from a synthetic fire at the roof of the big-top, by parachute, mounted on a horse. Finding this trick too monotonous, she had recently returned to her earlier specialty. When she regained the ability to speak, after the Bangor incident, Mabel Stark assured her friends that she had no intention of giving up her "cat-acts...
...That four members of the American team should conspire to a trick quite as dishonorable as tripping or knocking down a superior opponent, that they should go to the mark prepared to carry out their miserable plot, that, when at the last moment some shred and tatter of decency stopped them, they should glory in their sportsmanship-all this reads like a bad dream, like something impossible and unreal. It is as if they said, 'We planned to win by sticking a rake handle between Abraham's legs at the fifty-yard mark. It was a good scheme...
...valets, and books, and motor cars, but no friends. This might soon have palled had he not become further involved with his benefactor-who did not die after all. Years before, the exciting climax to Lord Ardrington's checkered career in South America had been a bitter trick played on his two partners, villains both. These two worked their way to prosperity as American bootleggers, and came at last to London, still snarling and snorting for revenge. Their sophisticated method was the slow, subtle torture of intimidation; their exquisite object, that black-eyed mignon, Ardrington's adopted daughter...