Word: ballyhooer
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...food supplies and distribute the food to inaccessible regions where camels, buffalo and coolieback were the only possible means of transportation. Beside their gigantic task, Hoover's Food Distributing job was simply a well-paid outing. And they did their work without any front page headlines or political ballyhoo. 'l think Herbert Hoover and Sinclair Lewis the two most overrated, overadvertised and disappointing men in American public life today...
...dislike for all the present life. . . . I see a cynicism in her manner, a tightness in her face, a tortured look. The impulse which has sent women to the nunnery ... is pushing Marion Talley now. It is a psychological case if the farm plan is sincere ; it is another ballyhoo, like the original Chamber of Commerce stunt, if it is not." Said Manager Gatti-Casazza: "I do not understand. I have always been like a father...
...Rickard's rivals. He has never reached the heights, but he has threatened. In signing Dempsey he gained as an asset the most magnetic personality in the fight game today. Dempsey proved as much when he rushed into the breach upon Rickard's death and by sheer ballyhoo turned the Sharkey-Stribling bout in Florida from a certain failure into a financial success. The Dempsey-Fugazy firm will begin with a lightweight championship battle−Sammy Mandell, the title holder, probably against Ray Miller of Chicago−to be held in Detroit, June 6. The Messrs. Dempsey...
...safety-razor stand Empire Salesman Wales remarked with just a touch of ballyhoo: "I always use one of these myself. It is a jolly sight safer than the old-fashioned...
...announcement of the Brown-Dartmouth lapse in gridiron relations starting next fall has been supplemented by the Boston newspapers with much speculation and ballyhoo concerning the 1929 Harvard coaching situation. Mr. Bingham's concise statement calms the troubled waters and points to the logical solution of whatever problems exist...