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Word: ballyhooing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...post-Faulkner Advocate, out this week, has not received the advance ballyhoo of its predecessor, but it is nevertheless an interesting production. It is well-balanced (i.e.--three stories, three poems, and three book reviews) and has an extremely tasteful and attractive cover...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: On the Shelf | 12/21/1951 | See Source »

...Speaker was invoking an old rule which provides that a word or phrase once officially banned in parliamentary debate cannot be used again. As a result, no M.P. can call another a bonehead, windbag, twister or underfed dwarf, say he lacks guts or intestinal fortitude, describe his speech as ballyhoo, cant and humbug, or cheap and nasty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Piffle | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...Massacre,' 'Jumble' ... After all, the world is wide, and intelligent thought will readily supply an unlimited number of well-sounding names which ... do not enable some widow or mother to say that her son was killed in an operation called 'Bunnyhug' or 'Ballyhoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Readable History | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

Paramount's sharpest ballyhoo experts descended last week on unsuspecting Bellaire, Ohio (pop. 12,500) to case the town for the year's corniest movie publicity gag. By the studio's reckoning, Bellaire's Mrs. Anne Kuchinka had beaten out more than 250,000 letter-writing contestants in persuading Paramount to stage the opening of its latest Bob Hope picture, My Favorite Spy, in her modest living room. Subject of her winning letter: how her husband paid for his dentistry education by working in a glass factory. On Nov. 27, while searchlights sweep the grateful Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Big Doings in Bellaire | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

...system and the Saturday football show. "We'd build Houses if we could afford it, but we could never take your football. I went to the Dartmouth game, and I'm still in a bloody daze. It's not the players so much but the daffy crowd. All the ballyhoo and cheering and such. But I guess that's what's meant by American spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Silhouette | 11/9/1951 | See Source »

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