Word: balloonful
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...candidates, avoiding over crowded walls, have taken to the ceiling, suspending a balloon, an airplane, and an effigy of a "bloody voter who didn't choose the right man." One team of aspirant has set up a public address system...
...confused with the Navy dirigible balloon Akron which crashed...
...hired a dozen plump ladies carrying baskets inscribed "We shop at Lipton's" to march up & down outside, drove a hefty, traffic-blocking pair of hogs marked "Lipton's Orphans" through the streets of Glasgow, scattered broadsides from a balloon, even issued authentic-looking pound notes as advertisements-and got in some minor trouble with the law. As Author Alec Waugh* delicately puts it in his readable but repetitious biography: "Lipton had no objection to being a public nuisance where his own interests were concerned...
...dizzying 19,000 (biggest in the U.S.) after it reported the astonishing discovery of "man-bats" on the moon. The Sun's playful hoax won it readers without losing their confidence; nine years later, it ran another famed hoax by Edgar Allan Poe about the first transatlantic balloon trip...
Like air hissing out of a balloon, students will hasten out of College today, leaving it deflated and limp. The occasion is the Christmas recess, which, like birthdays, comes only once a year, but never has caught anybody unawares...