Word: ballyhoos
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...entry into the war moves Gideon, nearly shakes him loose from Marduc. Offered the presidency of Kinnikinick College, Gideon is nostalgically tempted. But Peony Planish keeps him in the field of big-league ballyhoo while she meets "honeybee" Gideon's best friend at the dreary Hex Hotel...
Lettuce-growing, ballyhoo-loving Salinas, Calif, was bursting with civic pride last week: homegrown, natural rubber in small but commercial quantities was bouncing from its Government-owned guayule-processing mill. Pounding, chopping and sloshing away night & day at mounds of tough, dry guayule shrubs harvested and baled in the fields near by, the little mill was turning out six tons of 100%-California rubber every 24 hours...
They also edit versions of 24 commercial radio shows for the troops. They cut out all advertising ballyhoo, delete painful absurdities, like Eddie Cantor's "Mad Russian," which might be fine fodder for Axis propagandists...
...Herald-American's "War Romance Clinic" was born. Editor Malloy launched it amid typical Hearst ballyhoo; the wife of Chicago's Mayor Edward Kelly was persuaded to say for publication, "What a boon it will be . . ."; Herald-American delivery trucks had their sides plastered with promotion ads that screamed, "Soldier, You're Breaking My Heart...
...plant through whose intricacies Author Nichols guides the reader is an oil refinery in a suburb south of Chicago. The time is quietly crucial-1921-22-when new oil-cracking processes were first proving themselves. Author Nichols handles the change with so little progress ballyhoo, so little bitterness, so persuasively as a picture of individuals who are also industrial archetypes, that the story reaches beyond its own modesty into genuine pathos and touches the boundaries of tragicomedy...