Word: ballyhooer
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...spite of the ballyhoo about the careful in difference of Harvard undergraduates in spite of the growing demands of tutors, and what not, in spite of wind, weather and tide there are usually a couple of fellows coming back to college every year who want to know what the football team is doing, what it's done already and what sort of play they're going to have to endure this fall in the stadium...
...farce of the Wirt investigation, he denies his "anti-American doctrines," makes himself a laughing stock. Above the tumult, in Olympian inscrutability, Franklin Delano Roosevelt strides two horses running in opposite directions while a chorus of bandwagon riders, old friends, members of his family and the propaganda boys make ballyhoo...
...great British statesman was even more useful to MGM last week than the actual prospect of producing the Lloyd George Memoirs. Unlike the theatre, the cinema has no fixed "season." Only punctuation of year-round activity at major studios are annual "sales conventions," at which studio officials ballyhoo to their distributors the pictures they plan to produce during the next year. By last week, all major studios, except Columbia, had held their conventions, provided cinemaddicts with some notion of the screen fare in store for them...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, still the most potent producing plant in Hollywood, had more than David Copperfield and a Prime Minister to ballyhoo. Prime factors in the past success of Metro pictures have been 1) "star-power"; 2) Irving Thalberg. First two pictures on Producer Irving Thalberg's schedule are The Merry Widow, with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, directed by Ernst Lubitsch; and Pearl Buck's The Good Earth for which exteriors have already been filmed in China. Cinemaddicts, who have lately been warned by the Roman Catholic Church's Legion of Decency to cast a suspicious...
...famed in the South and Midwest), Peter Paul, Inc. of Connecticut's Mound (coconut) and Mason, Au & Magenheimer's Peaks and Mason mints. Black Crows is weathering the general slump in licorice which almost no one eats after the age of 12. Remote from the bar ballyhoo are the makers of candy in bulk and in boxes: Chicago's Bunte Bros., E. J. Brach; New York's Henry Heide; Boston's Schrafft and New York's Loft (both also restaurateurs; ; Cambridge's New England Confectionery: Atlanta's Nunnally; Philadelphia's Stephen...