Word: ballyhooer
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...fear of after-effects. After Christmas the show will positively close. On the front pages, on the floor of Congress, everywhere, big boy Prosperity will perform alone. His ballyhoo brigade does its stunts twelve months in the year...
...grown mature, have performed a miracle . . . modern civilization ... a great agricultural empire ... a rich industrial commonwealth . . . out of the bottomless cornucopia of Providence," etc., etc. He accuses men his age of overmuch pride in their material achievements and sentimentality over their oldtime virtues. But then he turns around to ballyhoo Progress harder than anyone and to give his contemporaries credit for planting in Modern Youth a virtue greater than ever. This is curious because it reveals in himself a refinement of the very vice he has set out to reform-boasting. Nor does he demonstrate that the "new" virtue...
...character of the candidate himself, as shown in his conduct of responsible duties, and as revealed in his attitude toward his political associates. If a man shows himself to be honest, industrious, and appreciative of duty, he needs no further recommendation for office nor is any political ballyhoo needed to add to the popularity of such a candidate...
After tremendous ballyhoo, the world series, a war of bats, began -New York against St. Louis, the Yankees against the Cardinals, in New York...
...genuine, clean humor of student life," he said, "is a natural source which will be drawn on more and more. In the 'Poor Nut' there is the additional satirization of the athletic 'ballyhoo', and the fraternity life more prevalent in the Middle-West than in the East...