Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show" was the quiet, confident statement of Arthur Hurley, director of the Hasty Pudding's "Come Across". Having turned men into women for fourteen years as coach of the "Lamb's Gambols" in New York, he is not worried about the crucial part of the production up here. His trick is to show the players' femininity by costume and a few gestures with the hips and hands rather than by a fakey voice...
...arrival in the front of Hollis the new truck was given the place of honor and the all-in-one-piece ladder was run up with eclat but unfortunately it was long by about 20 feet and wrapped itself around the roof. A shorter, old fashioned ladder did the trick, but as the fireman who stands on the back platform said, the new one "shore looks purity up there...
...American history when each move to the westward was greeted by wholesome bloodshed and torture from the Indians. Treachery on the part of eastern gun manufactures who send large shipments of a new and improved model of rifle to the Indians, leads to the great action scene where trick photography has achieved the most effective moving attack we have seen in years...
...Father Gapon's peaceful petitioners were shot down in hundreds outside the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, while Mukden was lost and the Russian Navy went to destruction in Tsushima. The Kaiser rattled his sabre at Tangier, made a crude attempt to trick Tsar Nicholas into an alliance. Mr. Balfour, innocuous leader of England's Conservatives, sank into innocuous desuetude...
...floor) but there is a penetrating draft which comes first from the left and then from my back and overhead; so by a simple shift of the umbrella from my left to a verticle position and vice versa, as the wind changes, the trick is done. This little feat was suggested to me by a young Rhodes Scholar from Georgia; and though so many of the Rhodes men here are referred to in rather dampish terms, still this Southerner is so sensitive to cold weather to be of an original turn of mind. It is this same fellow who experimented...