Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first to telephone the correct answer. Innumerable wise contestants were jumping the starting gun by dialing the first four digits of WPG's number, snapping the final digit as soon as they had the solution. Until the wires were cleared by mass attack on the fifth digit, that trick automatically put busy signals on the ten telephones with numbers beginning with the same four digits. Because of the oddities of the dial system, large numbers of calls often backed up the jam so far that it tied up all the numbers beginning with the same two digits, giving busy...
...back into Spain to paint a girl he had seen from the train window. The satyrlike old Bohemian, John Bidlake, in Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point was immediately accepted in Bloomsbury as a fictionalization of Augustus John, minus the real artist's wild whiskers and his trick of looking fierce in one eye and hunted in the other...
Father of modern orchestration was an excitable red-headed Frenchman named Hector Berlioz, who lived in the middle 19th Century. From him such romantic composers as Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, such impressionists as Claude Debussy, learned many a trick of the trade. Erratic but forceful, Composer Berlioz, an original in his day, was insatiably concerned with orchestral instruments. He studied them all, speculated on their possibilities, wrote a book about them, dreamed of gigantic orchestras with platoons of trumpets and battalions of violins. When he composed he often wrote for large combinations of instruments. One such work is his Requiem...
...Trick shooting and a duel will feature the Grand Finale of Wide and Handsome Shooting which winds up the season of the ROTC Pistol Team tonight in the Memorial Hall range at 7:30 o'clock...
...lingo in which an angry character "arcs," gets "hotter than a wet switch''; a nosey one gets "ideas his head ain't insulated for." Like the piano playing of the villain, the plot is as "complicated as a six-track interlocking," contains as many trick effects as an electrical exposition. But when Author Haines writes straight description of wiring a low tunnel, his story delivers useful power...