Word: ballyhoos
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...assure you don't know, 'cause, as a Yauk, you'd never is a million years give him the ballyhoo you are quoted as proposing if you did know...
...father's grocery wagon and watched Aristides win the race. Grocery Boy Matt Winn became Matt Winn, merchant tailor of Covington, Ky. Twenty years ago, Tailor Matt Winn became Colonel Matt J. Winn, racetrack manager. In 1914 he upped the Derby's purse, steadily began to ballyhoo the race into a social and sporting extravaganza. Now, 73, Colonel Winn as president of the American Turf Association operates not only Churchill Downs at Louisville, but Latonia, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, as well as Lincoln Fields and Washington Park outside Chicago...
...Penn. who want to know what's going on in this world of ours each week, then start their subscription again and bill me for the first year. I'm not opulent, but I, at least, try to be human. There's no Ballyhoo about this proposition,- I'll come across if Penn. has no "liberal'' alumni. There you are TIME-God bless yer, old Alma Mater. LEW FOSTER...
...Something Like Ballyhoo...
...TIME was inferior to The Literary Digest, a magazine to which the Library can afford to subscribe. The Digest, I argued, merely showed scissors whereas TIME showed a much finer pair of shears. Her reply here was that TIME was "a smart-alecky and a funny magazine-something like Ballyhoo...