Word: ballyhooligan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, the extravaganza's ballyhoo was reaching its shrill peak, the work of Pressagent Richard Maney, a character twice as big and almost as fantastic as Mr. Rose. Ballyhooligan Maney's stock in trade is emphasizing his employer's lunacy, inventing alliterative nicknames for him in the Press. He has had little trouble on the first score, for even Mrs. Rose is convinced that her impetuous little man has taken leave of his senses. But the best nicknames the pressagent has been able to think up for his boss so far have been "The Rasputin...
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