Word: ballyhooer
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...Life's first editor, and a part owner but was stricken with malaria and had to quit after the first six months. Three or four years later he resumed work as editorial writer, wrote regularly for the next 40 years until Editor Norman Hume Anthony, now of Ballyhoo, took the editorship of Life in 1929 for a brief tenure. Lloyd George had called E. S. Martin "the greatest editorial writer using the English language today"; Anthony threw out the Martin editorials because they were "lousy." The Martin editorials have been resumed since then and E. S. Martin should reinstate...
...very much of a washout, and I think you will find more ex-service men in agreement with your general trend of thought in the premises than you had imagined. The type of critical analysis which your editorial suggests is one which should provide a reasonable immunity to the ballyhoo which inevitably will accompany the next real or imagined international crisis, and it is wholesome state of mind which, if widely and internationally held by younger generations, should be an effective deterrent to those who are supersensitive upon the subject of national honor and the like. Too often the assumed...
...other side of the Rhine all theaters have a permanent company, which plays every sort of piece, from the classics to the latest author's newest work. The runs are for a few nights only, and the crowds are attracted as much by variety as here they are by ballyhoo and reputation. The actors, because of the varied diet, and because an actor is not chosen by personality, and fitted to his part, but must really act, are better than Americans, who are untrained, and chosen because of some pleasant characteristic...
...having against all other judgment; the night golden-haired Maria Jeritza gave her first breath-taking performance of Tosca and astounded New Yorkers by singing the Vissi d' arte lying flat on the stage; the night Marion Talley made her debut with a delegation from Kansas City to ballyhoo her placid, immature performance; the night Antonio Scotti, celebrating his 25th anniversary at the Metropolitan, received as tribute a brace of pigeons hidden in a great basket of flowers...
...hardly be less acceptable to the nation at large than to the editors of the New Masses and the Daily Worker. The New York Herald-Tribune probably reflected preoccupied public opinion on the subject when it headlined its story on the pronouncement as "Red Riot at High Court"; Communist ballyhoo of the case excuses editors and public alike for confusing justice with Communist propaganda. In this respect the case threatens to equal the "Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti...