Word: ballyhooing
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...York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart: "It is strange, after reading eyewitness accounts of how Cassino was leveled by the air force, to stand on a hill overlooking the town and see so many buildings still erect. . . . The Allied air forces have been the victims of too much ballyhoo...
...servicemen have been discharged from active service, that many of them want and need jobs; 2) it drew an enthusiastic response (hundreds of job offers). The show also provided a beautiful example of the U.S. tendency to convert any serious human situation, if possible, into some form of sales ballyhoo...
...youth named Bern rented a second-floor loft and opened BB's College of Dancing. They got together a four-piece band so noisy that it had to play near an open window to let the bulk of the syncopation blast into the street. This also served as ballyhoo. The boys got some of their customers by going to Ellis Island and approaching immigrants just off the boats. The sales talk: one of the first requisites of U.S. citizenship was a $5 course of dancing lessons...
...search for warworkers reached musicomedy proportions last week. In Seattle, where huge Boeing Aircraft is still starved for Flying Fortressmakers after months of ballyhoo, the Army filled the University of Washington Stadium with a real-life show complete with land ing barges, machine guns, land mines...
...Lorillard Co. (Old Golds) has trip-hammered the claim that its cigarets contain less nicotine than others, ever since the Digest's tests a year ago showed this to be technically true. But the Digest now reports the FTC complaint that Old Gold's ballyhoo "carefully omits" mention of the fact that "the actual difference between the average amount of nicotine in an Old Gold and in two other brands was one-177,000th of an ounce. By switching to Old Golds, the addict who smokes 20 cigarets a day will subject his system to only one-24th...