Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saturday's loss marked the first time that the Stubbsmen had been beaten by a college in this country since the Big Green turned the trick exactly two years ago. The Crimson dropped to a fifth place tie with Princeton in the International Intercollegiate League. Not only did they reduce their chances of retaining second place in the league, but they also passed up a great opportunity of eventually tying McGill for the first berth. Queens completely upset the dope Friday night by handing the Red Birds their first defeat since the league's inception...
Walter Winchell, unconvinced, came back: ". . Beaton's subconscious had nothing to do with it ... it was deliberate and known to him. So delighted was he with his little trick that he spread the news among his intimates, gloating of how it had put one over. . . . Naturally, that is how we heard about...
Commonest and dullest trick to make advertising copy seem imperative is the fake newspaper front page. However, when one of Massachusetts' tireless, keen-eyed radio "hams" spied such an imaginary newspaper page heading a radio tube advertisement in her January copy of the magazine QST, she took a magnifying glass to the tiny glyphs under a headline GOOD NEWS! Shocked, she tattled to her postmaster that she had discovered something far from dull. He called in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Hygrade Sylvania Corp., which made the tubes, shifted the blame to its advertising agency. The agency communicated hotly...
...helped lead their organizations into C. I. O. Daily for four days they packed themselves into the smoke-blue auditorium of Islam Grotto in Pittsburgh's slummy North Side, across the Allegheny River from the Golden Triangle. That the S. W. O. C. had picked up a trick or two from Fascist and Communist propagandists was evident from the huge posters of brawny steelworkers, the heroic pictures of Phil Murray and Leader Lewis. Conspicuously dangling by the neck was an effigy of Tom Girdler...
...York's Yiddish theatre district on lower Second Avenue, which has produced such fine actors as Paul Muni, does not often bring forth a popular song. Last week it had apparently turned the trick...