Word: ballyhooing
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...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...
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...
...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...
After a full month of rehearsals and ballyhoo, the Band will unveil its Dartmouth Concert at 8:15 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre...
...court named a trustee to try to get the prostrate horse to its feet again, a new whiplash struck it. The Federal Trade Commission complained that Hadacol's leeringly prurient ballyhoo ("The Hadacol boogie makes you boogie-woogie all the time") is "false, misleading and deceptive" in representing the nostrum as "an effective treatment and cure for scores of ailments and diseases...