Word: ballyhooing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Penn. who want to know what's going on in this world of ours each week, then start their subscription again and bill me for the first year. I'm not opulent, but I, at least, try to be human. There's no Ballyhoo about this proposition,- I'll come across if Penn. has no "liberal'' alumni. There you are TIME-God bless yer, old Alma Mater. LEW FOSTER...
...Something Like Ballyhoo...
...TIME was inferior to The Literary Digest, a magazine to which the Library can afford to subscribe. The Digest, I argued, merely showed scissors whereas TIME showed a much finer pair of shears. Her reply here was that TIME was "a smart-alecky and a funny magazine-something like Ballyhoo...
University--"Eskimo". A picture that, oddly enough, is as good as the advance press ballyhoo would have one believe. "Let's Fall in Love". An inconsequential piece...
...promised, roared the General, that the program would make 3,000,000 new jobs and it had. Had NRA failed to increase consumer purchasing power? He had upped annual payrolls by three billion dollars while the cost of living had remained almost stationary. Had NRA been put across by "ballyhoo and propaganda?" These, explained General Johnson, were empty words hurled by NRA's detractors to mislead the public. The field of criticism was further narrowed by the redoubtable General as he concluded...