Word: ballyhooing
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...further definitely determined to do everything in its power to avoid the slightest semblance of a mass attack by a disgruntled and radical minority upon the University, making impossible and extreme demands with a vaporous and absurd threat of scandal mongering and ballyhoo...
...Ballyhoo for the Westminster Kennel Club's Annual Dog Show is usually composed of statistics, freaks, photographs of puppies. Last week's ballyhoo contained the customary information that more dogs (2,837) were entered than ever before, items about a singular creature called the Welsh Corgi, news that dachshunds outnumbered all other entries. Newsreaders, however, were flabbergasted at one new note in the ballyhoo. This was the Woolworth Donahue Cheetah. Before the show opened sports pages contained pictures of the cheetah and its trainer, Publisher Eltinge F. Warner of Field & Stream. When the show began, patrons viewed...
...appear in Margaret Kennedy's Escape Me Never!, the play in which Actress Bergner first spoke English and in which she took critical London by storm last year. To promote her Manhattan debut, Producer Cochran and the Theatre Guild had dragged out every threadbare cliche known to theatrical ballyhoo. Actress Bergner was billed as a shy recluse, inordinately modest, simple, unaffected, fond of Wiener Schnitzel and dogs. "She works harder than any other member of the company," said one account. "She is the first to arrive at the theatre, and she spends an hour on her make-up alone...
...subsequently succeeded by Edward J. Reilly. also of Brooklyn, who has an impressive record for getting his clients off murder charges. Story was that Fawcett was dropped because he wanted Hauptmann to plead insanity. Reilly has been nothing if not aggressive in his handling of the pre-trial ballyhoo. He criticized the New Jersey police for bungling the investigation, declaring that the case could have been settled by competent hands in 48 hours. He staged a birthday party for Baby Mannfried. He shrewdly pointed up the prosecution's weakness by trying to get a bill of particulars forcing...
Impervious to politics, ballyhoo, everything except strict justice, is the jurist before whom Bruno Hauptmann will go on trial for his life. He is Supreme Court Justice Thomas Whitaker Trenchard, affectionately called "Uncle Tom" by his cronies in Flemington, where he has presided at the sitting of the Hunterdon County Court for years...