Word: ballyhoos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Buses. Out of Washington, D. C., rolled two spanking motor buses, red, white and blue, laden with loudspeakers and literature. One had the same destination as the eastbound Hoover Special-West Branch, Iowa, the Hoover birthplace. The other rolled for Providence, R. I., to campaign with Curtis. This new ballyhoo was called "garage-storming...
King George II (deposed) of Greece figured in the ballyhoo. The Floranada Club had offered to him a house with "cool rooms overlooking tropical gardens," if he would buy a plot of ground in the community. Among the questions asked Promoter Cromwell by the bankruptcy lawyers was: "Had you ever considered that the King might turn the place into a Greek restaurant...
Thus last week sports writers and Mr. George L. Rickard, boxing promoter. To their desks went the sports writers and began to turn out ballyhoo based on the following facts...
What's wrong? The answer can probably be found in the New Englander's reticence to ballyhoo himself and his community. He has been quietly going about his business for two centuries. His industrialism, deeprooted, has grown like an oak and not like a mushroom...
...President Coolidge's study one day and said: "Mr. Coolidge will be voted for in the Kansas City convention whether he is placed in nomination or not." President Coolidge did not call Mr. Hilles back to reprove him, nor was any quietus put upon the transparent ballyhoo in Chicago, the immediate purpose of which was to strengthen a State ticket frogged up by Mayor Thompson and his discredited comrade-in-expediency, Governor Lennington Small...