For example, Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 thriller The 39 Steps features the gimmick of a young couple who find themselves handcuffed together and who eventually, almost in spite of themselves, fall in love with one another, and Woody Van Dyke's 1934 detective comedy The Thin Man portrays a witty, urbane couple who trade barbs as they solve mysteries together.

Sony made this model with only sound quality in mind at an affordable price, therefore it contains no gimmick features such as in-line remote control, music search, or LCD readout.

Only certain mezcals, usually from the state of Oaxaca, are ever sold " con gusano " (" with worm "), and that only began as a marketing gimmick in the 1940s.

Many of his dances were built around a " gimmick ," such as dancing on the walls in " Royal Wedding " or dancing with his shadows in Swing Time, that he or his collaborator had thought up earlier and saved for the right situation.

Generally speaking, each of these squares dances independently of each other, with the exception of specialty or " gimmick " dances, where there might be some crossover of dancers from one square to another.

It is believed that a local minister and real estate agent, wanting to sell lots to newcomers, came up with the name as a marketing gimmick.

In 1967, he had a spirited discussion about television in politics with one of the show's guests, Richard Nixon, who took the view that television was a gimmick.

" The Gobbledy Gooker " was a character in the World Wrestling Federation's Survivor Series, who " hatched " from an egg and then proceeded to dance with the announcer in the ring ; widely considered one of the worst gimmicks created by wrestling fans, it inspired the now-annual WrestleCrap Award for worst gimmick of the year.

That year, with attendance at half the 1946 level, Twentieth Century-Fox gambled on an unproven gimmick.

As a publicity gimmick, producer Walter Wanger offered one million dollars to Elizabeth Taylor if she would star ; she accepted, and costs for Cleopatra began to escalate, aggravated by Richard Burton's on-set romance with Taylor and the surrounding media frenzy.

Jay suggested that with his love of clubs, Divine could obtain work performing in them ; as a result, Divine first appeared in 1979 at a gay club in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where his unscripted act included shouting " fuck you " repeatedly at the audience and then getting into a fight with another drag queen, a gimmick that proved popular with the club's clientele.

In 1972, Crabtree returned to Joint Promotions as a heel with a gimmick of The Battling Guardsman based on his former service with the Coldstreams.

This leaves the owner with the basic functions of the item and the gimmick disabled or, in the case of very cheaply produced products, the gimmick broken completely from the main body of the item.

In 1932, the company recognized the popularity of the signs with a self-referencing gimmick:

Paar later refused American Tobacco's suggestion that he come up with a weekly running gag or gimmick, saying he " wanted to get away from that kind of old-hat comedy, the kind being practiced by Jack Benny and Fred Allen.

As the series went on, this gimmick became a burden for the show's writers, who had to come up with a different joke every week.

Varieties included songs with an unusual gimmick, such as the stuttering in " K-K-K-Katy ", silly lyrics like " Yes!

There, he turned face and was given a gimmick that saw him proclaim that he was " Just a Regular Guy ", for which he was featured in vignettes and backstage segments showing him in normal situations that were then augmented by " disgusting " antics such as brushing his teeth and his dogs teeth with the same brush and eating food from the floor.

Storm continued teaming with Regal as a regular tag team with the same Anti-American gimmick ; Storm waved the Canadian flag and Regal waved the British flag.

When he joined New Japan Pro Wrestling he was immediately paired with Kensuke Sasaki, then simply known as a good mid-carder, as the Hell Raisers ( Sasaki adopting the face paint and gimmick Power Warrior ).

In 1988 the release of the Amiga A2024 fixed-frequency monochrome monitor with built-in framebuffer and flicker fixer hardware provided the Amiga with a choice of high-resolution graphic modes ( 1024 × 800 for NTSC and 1024 × 1024 for PAL ).

The paper that has been exposed is processed, first by immersion in a photographic developer, halting development with a stop bath, and fixing in a photographic fixer.

After Manchester United had tried to sign Busby from Manchester City in 1930, he became good friends with United's fixer, Louis Rocca ; their relationship was helped in part by the fact that both were members of the Manchester Catholic Sportsman's Club.

Optionally, after fixing, the print is treated with a hypo clearing agent to ensure complete removal of the fixer, which would otherwise compromise the long term stability of the image.

It was widely assumed that the Outfit's political fixer, Murray " The Camel " Humphreys, used his influence with President Harry Truman's Attorney General, Tom C. Clark, to spring Roselli and the other Outfit bosses from prison.

The fixer, typically sodium thiosulfate, is able to remove the unexposed silver halide by forming a water soluble complex with it.

Boogeyman's first major feud occurred with JBL and his " fixer " Jillian Hall, began when he stalked the duo throughout a number of shows.

Fixing is best done with a weak, alkaline fixer of 5 % sodium thiosulfate with a teaspoon of household ammonia per liter.

Then Little Billy began shouting orders to round up the ponies and fill the water buckets and for the cooks to hurry up with the meal.

Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

When I went for my interview with the director I saw why.

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

An' that could mean trouble with a fella that's workin' for crooks.

The seventh man was Red Hogan, a wiry little puncher with a wild streak and a liking for hell-raising.

Later, riding in for some lusty enjoyment of the liquor and professional ladies of Cheyenne, he laid claim to the killing with the vague insinuations he made.

Houses of settlers who'd treated the company herds as a natural resource, free for the taking, were sitting empty, with weeds growing high in their yards.

He released her reluctantly for her enthusiastic reunion with Old Hap.

Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to follow with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fast if either of you get in a pinch ''.

He tramped out of the Miners Rest with his hopes plummeting, and headed doggedly for the Palace Saloon, the last place of any consequence on this side of the street.

Greg himself took two flights, with Todman leading the second, to patrol and look for targets of opportunities around Ormoc on the east coast of Leyte.

The valley was only a few hundred yards wide with just about room enough for a properly performed hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.

I started looking on the splintery truck bed for a piece of board, a dirt clod -- anything I could throw and with better aim than I had thrown the beer bottle.

this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.

He used the blanket for late morning naps when hosts of the night had gone off to jobs and proved reluctant to leave him in their small rooms with their few possessions.

As she was rather tired this evening, her simple `` Thank you for the use of your bath '' -- when she sat down opposite him -- spoken in a low voice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and control.

But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.

Her face was pale but set and her dark eyes smoldered with blame for Ben.

He chatted with Ramey and Benson for a minute or so in the meager shade of the trailer.

Blue Throat, who had ruled the town with his six-shooter for the last six months, certainly had no intention of relinquishing his profitable dictatorship.

Sometimes he did this three or four times a day, for this Woman was almost always with him.