Word: ballyhooing
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That sprung the ballyhoo. And from around this mundane sphere...
...behind the Luxembourg museum is typical of the logical French mind. Praises of living artists are forever reverberating in the cafes and studios of France. But these hallelujahs, often fanatical in intensity, are usually ignored by bland, potent French critics. These priests of the Louvre are too wise to ballyhoo any skyrocketing dauber who happens to be the vogue. But occasionally the critical pundits suspect a novice of immortality. When this happens they have a routine gesture of generosity. They hang his pictures in the Luxembourg. For a minimum of ten years the pictures generally stay there. Thousands see them...
Come to think of it that was all it was supposed to be in the first place. Those who have been insisting that the ballyhoo and the hysteria in connection with modern intercollegiate football have destroyed all sense of proportion should applaud the attitude of the Yale undergraduate but before and during this game. Certainly the telling was that it was just a football game merely that and nothing more...
...Lottery. Then he ran into a garrulous bartender named H. H. Tammen and they bought a newspaper, the Denver Post, with which they fattened the gambler's wad and extended the bartender's ingenuity. They had a circus, too (Sells-Floto). But, for raw meat and dripping ballyhoo, the Denver Post was a circus in itself. The reputation of Mr. Bonfils was to use the hatchet, but not to bury...
...blatant and inaccurate attacks on Al Smith, the Pope and rum -by story, headline, editorial, cartoon and readers' forum. The doings and speeches of Mrs. Willebrandt, Rev. John Roach Straton, Senator Heflin and many a minor bigot were faithfully reported. The technique in handling campaign trends was to ballyhoo a Hoover landslide: for example, "Smith to be Most Badly Defeated Candidate Ever Running for Presidency." Then there was standard stuff: "Drunk Negro Boosting Smith," "Kissing Pope's Ring Insult to Flag," "Tirades on Religion and Liquor by Smith in West Turn Voters in Disgust." But, here and there...