Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...choosing Roland Thomas to front for their union, C. I. O.'s adherents played a smart trick on Homer Martin. When he began to lose his grip on the executive board last year, one member who stood by him was Mr. Thomas. Only when Murray & Hillman intervened did Martin and Thomas finally part company. Thus Homer Martin had to eat many an old word last week when he accused his onetime friend of sabotaging the union...
...time when they could least be spared from the western front, 500,000 soldiers of Germany and Austria-Hungary were needed to keep the Ukraine in order. Moreover, the Ukrainian peasant was not enthusiastic about feeding the Germans at the front. For the 1918 harvest they tried to trick the Germans by planting just enough for their own needs. Only 42,000 truck loads of grain were exported from the Ukraine during the entire period of German-Austrian occupation...
Admirers of the late Thome Smith, from whose books Topper and its sequel were derived, will doubtless be enchanted by the gaiety and humor of these proceedings. Less prejudiced cinemaddicts may feel that the comic possibilities of its trick photography are less inexhaustible than its producers supposed. Once the side-splitting spectacle of doors opening without apparent human aid has lost its novelty, the picture's only surprises are occasional droll antics by Actors Young and Burke, and a few scraps of bright dialogue. Best line: Mrs. Topper's comment on Gallic manners: "Too bad the people...
...political gesture against Japan, "most dangerous." Summoned to meet at Peking last week were the heads of the puppet Governments of Peking and Nanking and the "provisional" Governments of Hankow and Canton. One of the purposes of the meeting was to teach the puppets a politico-economic trick that has already been successfully employed by Japan in Manchukuo. Japan would formulate, the puppets promulgate, trade rules discriminating against other nations. Thus Japan will be able to pretend that she has not slammed the open door in China...
...Louis E. Shecter & Norman Clark) tells of a near-bankrupt department store which, as a desperation publicity stunt, has a young girl live by day, then undress and sleep by night, in one of its windows. The girl packs the store with customers. It will be more of a trick to pack the theatre with them...