Word: ballyhooer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed power rate "yardstick," as developed by Lilienthal, was false because from TVA's rate bases were omitted many costs which private utilities would have had to meet; the power loads built up to bring rates down were built haphazardly, wastefully, with expensive ballyhoo...
...magazines: Esquire, Ballyhoo, Film Fun, Peek, See, Sex Guide, Sheer Folly and 97 others; in Denver, Colo. The agency: a committee headed by Right Reverend Hugh L. McMenamin, rector of the Roman Catholic Cathedral. Reason: pictures and advertisements "suggestive of sex." Authority: Colorado law forbids distribution of obscene literature, provides for mandatory fines and jail sentences for violators. Fortnight ago. Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton of Denver appointed the McMenamin committee, instructed his police to enforce any bans it might make. If magazine distributors object to police action, they can sue the police in court...
...wording was deplorable. President Conant seems aware that this is a democracy, but oblivious of the limitations inherent in a democracy. Until that golden Tomorrow, when "basic education is truly universal," the President will have to use words of two syllables or bear the consequences, for publicity, build-up, ballyhoo, and general "talking down" are essential to putting a point across to the general public...
Coach Mann, disgruntled over the nationwide ballyhoo given Yale's invincibility, demanded a showdown. But Yale year after year had no open date on its schedule. This rebuff, although probably unintentional, precipitated one of the most publicized coaching feuds in collegiate history. Coach Kiphuth frankly disliked his aggressive Midwestern rival, saw no use for his mechanical rabbits and other training gadgets used to develop stamina and pace. Coach Mann looked with disdain on his Eastern rival who had taught himself to teach swimmers by watching others swim...
With less build-up and ballyhoo than attends the opening of a third-rate motion picture, there started at the beginning of the term a series of twelve lectures of vital interest to all who appreciate the personal and social blessings of good health. Organized by Dr. Charles F. McKhann, the free, public addresses held at the Medical School every Sunday afternoon have already benefitted hundreds of men and women who weekly pack the School's largest amphitheatre, and have enlightened thousands of others through the medium of the daily press...