Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five of the capsized fisherman had drowned before the swimmers reached them, but it was no trick at all for Kahanamoku and his followers to buoy up 13 survivors, drag them across their boards, catch a wave and rush their gasping passengers ashore in relays. The exhibition bore out, surprisingly soon, a recent pronouncement of the U. S. President (TIME, June 1, THE PRESIDENCY), that swimming "in itself constitutes a useful accomplishment...
...first place, they really did have a fence at Yale. Heretofore, one was always hounded by the suspicion that that fence was another photographer's trick thrust in, like painted clouds, to give atmosphere. But it was a regular fence after all. The joke...
...FAIR-Michael Arlen-Doran. ($2.50). Now Dikran Kuyunijiao has written another book, which is the last that he will write about these charming people, they do say. He has a pretty way with words, this Michael, or this Dikran. If it is the same trick that the cavaliers of the 17th Century had with a lady's hand, and the dandies of the 18th with a silver perruque and a puffing neckcloth, that is because he stands, as they did, in defense of gallantry; and it is a proud thing to be paid for defending gallantry in a world...
Moreover, in the hasty departure of Professor Baker from Cambridge to New Haven there was much which seemed unbecoming. To many of us it appeared a shrewd Yankee trick, similar to those business coups whereby one company lures away the consulting engineer or sales manager who have been the mainstay of a rival concern. Yale was not so poor in dramatic talent as to need such a quick turnover in her dramatic teaching. The result was that many who do not know Woolley or knowing him, have no great liking for him personally, used his resignation as their excuse...
Your issue of Apr. 20, Page 2, third column, asterisk note, the phrase "watered stock" evolved from the practice of this trick by the brother of the original J. J. Astor, not Jim Fisk, as you mention...