Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Very patently to capture the imagination of Evanston, Mr. Dawes has attractions other than his now famous trick pipe and loud vocabulary...
Election Fraud. "It has always been the habit of parties which have been beaten in elections to blame it on the violence or fraud of their adversaries. That the opposition should attempt the same trick now, therefore, neither surprises nor disturbs...
...attitude. When correctly executed, the loop is seen as a beautiful, smooth curve in the sky. But it is a wise precaution to have the safety belt well buckled when flying upside down, for plane and pilot may suddenly part company. To perform a series of loops, when the trick is once learned, is but a question of endurance and of a head that does not grow dizzy when earth and sky seem to revolve in a gigantic circle before one's eyes. Still, very few pilots could emulate the exploit of Madame Adrienne Bolland, French aviatrix who last...
Sherlock, Jr. A cinema operator (Buster Keaton) falls asleep at his machine and dreams he is a great detective-the kind that only the cinema can produce. The unexpected, fantastic dream situations lend themselves to some remarkable trick effects, including one in which Buster walks right out of an audience and into a picture on the screen, only to be promptly hurled back into the audience by one of the players acting on the silver sheet...
...imposition of one system on the top of another-English. If you will, upon American-has been commented on before. So, too, has the fact of human nature that there are many men to whom the trick of writing a good examination must-always remain a mystery. There, of course, lies the first unfairness. Give me for a few hours a man who has a certain natural wit; and I can teach him enough blue-book "fricks" to guarantee him as pass over the man who knows his work thoroughly, can speak it and ever use it to advantage...