Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cunning of the men who pretend to have the ball but who haven't appeals to me. In Australia, we call that trick "selling your opponent a dummy...
...Vagabond's lap, the Attic is in darkness. Across the quadrangle a silly radio bleats out a strain of jazz. The Vagabond reads for a moment, then gets up and shuts the window toward the quadrangle. The radio's voice is still. The Vagabond smiles. He knows a trick or two that'll baffle modern science. He reads...
...just a little jarring to see the rubber men do a kind of Apache dance with the faerles, and then disappear in a manner so unnatural even for a fantasy that the brainless noisemaker behind us was led to comment, "I know how it's done. It's trick photography...
...wardrobe, it is well to remember the proverb: 'Clothes make the Princeton man, but the Radcliffe girl makes her own clothes." Here, on the right side of the Cambridge Common, one also makes his own clothes--do the trick. The attire of the Harvard man is as mythical as his accent. The last one in captivity, answering the description, was found lying in the gutter in front of the Statler the last Saturday night of last November. His grey flannels were eight inches from his shoetops, his saddle-back shoes were an oyster gray, and his head showed the latest...
Printing a Wide World photograph of a herd of cattle grazing in the shadow of the North Dakota Capitol, the Forum explained: "Where those cows are presumably grazing is a graveled parking lot. The picture, fake, is a result of a photographic trick of superimposing a picture of a herd of cattle on a picture of the North Dakota State Capitol Building...