Word: ballyhooing
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...first alteration between the editors came when an editorial was published in which the writer spoke of Huey's using the football team as a ballyhoo stunt to further his political ends. At this time, after several hundred copies had been distributed, the editors apologized and destroyed the remaining issues...
...situation at present not only encourages but fairly drives the first-year men to take all the cuts possible. The droning voice of the lecturers, inaudible at the back of the room, is the best selling point that the Saturday Evening Post and Ballyhoo can vaunt. The amount of actual information dispensed is quite as adequately covered in the syllabus...
...this, college youth for the most part remains idealistic and the spirit of reform gives impetus to their interest in politics. But how many men as idealistic in their youth have found the only way to political success in a democracy was to follow the precedents set by ballyhoo artists well-versed in the rules of the game so ably outlined by Frank R. Kent...
Bestirred with such ballyhoo, the aver age playgoer might have been justified in expecting more than the moments of sensuous beauty he got at Within the Gates. Mr. O'Casey's point is that the world has been considerably upset since the War, that Capitalism can offer no security, that in the crisis Mother Church has been discovered to be a humbug...
...Swedish-born business consultant Mr. Ortman will begin this week to apply budgetary innovations to the production of not only 178,000,000 catalogs but also 186,000,000 magazines turned out yearly by Hall Printing (Pictorial Review, Illustrated Love, Review of Reviews, Ballyhoo, Photoplay and a dozen others...