Word: ballyhooer
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...passed off as mere frosting on the cheesecake, Actress Audrey Hepburn, who won this year's Hollywood Oscar for her starring role in Roman Holiday and the top "Tony" award for her performance in the Broadway hit Ondine, expertly struck a pose for photographers to help ballyhoo her forthcoming movie, Sabrina...
...University is not trying to be exclusive--it is just trying to stay clean. The ballyhoo of Sports Cavalcades and Games of the Day is big business. Games are the stock in trade and each has its own price tag. The men in University Hall are not expected to be booking agents for a football team. Nor are they expected to be drum beaters and publicity agents. No college should have to sell itself to the public on the merits of its football team. When it tries, it becomes less a college and more a paid performer...
...October. This early date would not really affect the efficiency of the Smoker Committee elections, as some champions of the March date argue. Candidates from schools with large delegations at the College would command only a tiny minority of friends in comparison to the size of the class. Ballyhoo would continue to be the decisive factor, and a vote for a flamboyant stranger in December is no better considered than one cast in October...
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...This House has never gone in for ballyhoo," Perkins said, "and I'm not going to start it now, but there was a day when we not only knocked off our share of academic honors but took the Straus Trophy more than our share of the times...