Word: ballyhooing
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Said W. O. McGeehan, the best of all sports writers: "It took place very unostentatiously. There were few correspondents. There seemed to be some doubt as to whether this sort of thing came under the head of sports. There was no advance ballyhoo. There were no gate receipts...
...blatant ballyhoo in Dayton...
...blatant ballyhoo for the trial, next month, at Dayton, Tenn., of Teacher John Thomas Scopes, indicted by a grand jury under Tennessee's anti-evolution law (TIME, May 18), continued to occupy an exaggerated amount of space in the newspapers. Actual developments were...
...SHOW-OFF-The ballyhoo man for himself takes the stand and talks incessantly through a highly entertaining evening...
...settings and costumes there had been much ballyhoo. They were unfailingly elaborate, and almost as unfailingly in bad taste. A Fokine Ballet clogged the action...