Word: ballyhooing
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...ticket for the parade. The ticket will entitle the holder to a crimson cap and gown and a torch to be carried by each member of the club." This was in the days when an election meant a frantic torchlight procession around the Square, burnings in effigy, and collegiate ballyhoo...
...voiced by the News would be those of the H. A. A. officials. To have these policies clearly expressed and generally understood, however, is an object of sufficient value to give the H. A. A. News, so long as it lives up to its expressed intention of avoiding "the ballyhoo type of publicity", an important place among Harvard publications...
Buses. Out of Washington, D. C., rolled two spanking motor buses, red, white and blue, laden with loudspeakers and literature. One had the same destination as the eastbound Hoover Special-West Branch, Iowa, the Hoover birthplace. The other rolled for Providence, R. I., to campaign with Curtis. This new ballyhoo was called "garage-storming...
King George II (deposed) of Greece figured in the ballyhoo. The Floranada Club had offered to him a house with "cool rooms overlooking tropical gardens," if he would buy a plot of ground in the community. Among the questions asked Promoter Cromwell by the bankruptcy lawyers was: "Had you ever considered that the King might turn the place into a Greek restaurant...
Thus last week sports writers and Mr. George L. Rickard, boxing promoter. To their desks went the sports writers and began to turn out ballyhoo based on the following facts...