Word: ballyhooing
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Howard Hughes, plane-builder being investigated by a Senate committee, retorted "circus ballyhoo" to a subpoena from the committee and said that he couldn't make it until Wednesday because of business. His business--at least with the government ordered, huge flying boat--was reported as possibly costing the U.S. an extra...
Ticket buyers were still pretty choosy, but they packed in to see a good picture-or a bad one, for that matter, if it got enough ballyhoo. During the past month, according to Variety, the following were leaders...
Union rules, parietal regulations; and local hostelries re buttressed to meet the expected impact of the festive weekend; and Jubilee committeemen, almost (but never quite) buried in their own ballyhoo, are bubbling in anticipation of the opening gong...
...financial gap between students. Instead of arbitrarily outlawing the expenditure of any money for election purposes, the Council might well institute a basic maximum of five dollars per candidate. By allowing aspirants the means to publish mimeographed statements of intent, the Committee can maintain its policy of forbidding unfair ballyhoo and still uphold one of the most vital factors for the continued renaissance of student activity...
After $1,500,000 worth of ballyhoo, the costliest (some $6,000,000) and longest (134 minutes) horse opera ever made was finally being shown to the public. In Los Angeles, David 0. Selznick's Technicolored Duel in the Sun was running simultaneously in two theaters. Local reviewers found the extravaganza a titillating blend of wild oats and tame, well-worn plot, in which virtue emerged triumphant, but low-bodiced vice seemed to have all the fun. Nevertheless, the furor was up to Selznick's expectations-if not quite the kind of furor he had paid his advertising...