Word: ballyhooing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this, college youth for the most part remains idealistic and the spirit of reform gives impetus to their interest in politics. But how many men as idealistic in their youth have found the only way to political success in a democracy was to follow the precedents set by ballyhoo artists well-versed in the rules of the game so ably outlined by Frank R. Kent...
Bestirred with such ballyhoo, the aver age playgoer might have been justified in expecting more than the moments of sensuous beauty he got at Within the Gates. Mr. O'Casey's point is that the world has been considerably upset since the War, that Capitalism can offer no security, that in the crisis Mother Church has been discovered to be a humbug...
...Swedish-born business consultant Mr. Ortman will begin this week to apply budgetary innovations to the production of not only 178,000,000 catalogs but also 186,000,000 magazines turned out yearly by Hall Printing (Pictorial Review, Illustrated Love, Review of Reviews, Ballyhoo, Photoplay and a dozen others...
...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...