Word: ballyhooer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inspired by recent correspondence controversy in TIME I am conducting stunt here ... to determine if Chicagoans go to hear renowned soloists because of musical appreciation or lure of great names and social ballyhoo...
...attend the world premiere of a motion picture. Normally at a Hollywood opening only a handful of the really great attend. The rest cannot be bothered with the ghastly splendor of the ceremonies. But last week one and all turned out. They came in answer to the loudest, shrewdest ballyhoo ever raised in cinema's capital. Besides, they could ill afford to be absent. Admission, for the first time in Hollywood history, was $11 per ticket. They came, also, to see the picture, Hell's Angels. They went away only partly pleased. They had seen incomparably the greatest...
...initial ballyhoo for the bonds, B. I. S. officials pointed out that original buyers of the Dawes Plan Bonds have received in interest and appreciation an 11% return to date...
Largely responsible for Circus ballyhoo is grizzled, bushy-browed Dexter Fellowes, Ringling pressagent. For 37 years Dexter Fellowes has been getting publicity for tent shows-a U. S. pressagent record. Business associates claim that he has the widest U. S. acquaintance. Even before the Circus got to town, his arrival was the signal for his friends of the press to wax waggish. He did not mind, for his policy is: let the newsmen write anything they like about...
...spite of all ballyhoo...