Word: hullaballoo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only seven months ago Italy's Communists, starchy with the stiffest kind of bourgeois morality, piously raised their voices in horror at the revelations of "bourgeois decadence" in the Wilma Montesi case. In the hullaballoo over drugs and sex among high-placed Romans, both Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni and the national police chief quit their posts, and there was much talk of cover-up and hush-up. But the talk was not followed by proof.* Meanwhile, Magazine Publisher Edgardo Sogno began finding political and personal scandals about the Communists themselves (TIME, Nov. 1). And last week the Communists were...
...hullaballoo of political campaigns, when in the form of rallies and occasional parades, is not really intolerable. One can always escape by merely walking away. But when candidates pursue the fleeing voter with malignant sound trucks, the freedom to campaign becomes a license to annoy...
...later than midnight on New Year's Eve. In February, Academy members, along with members of various guilds, will hold a "primary election," pick five nominees each for best picture, best acting, best direction, etc. A final, secret balloting will set the stage for the searchlights and ceremonious hullaballoo in March...
After all the hullaballoo surrounding his post-season speeches, Lloyd Jordan was again presenting his view. This time his ground seemed firm, his position unassailable...
...opening night, a crush of bobby-soxers whisked the bow-tie off 42-year-old "Cavalier of Song" Donald Peers before he could get in the stage door. Inside, the hullaballoo swelled to Sinatran size, even though, noted one London reviewer, stocky, ruddy-faced Crooner Peers "makes no undernourished appeal to the maternal instinct." From the minute he first let them have it-In a Shady Nook, It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day-in a jolly and effervescent baritone, "like an uncle at a children's party," the fans couldn't get enough of Britain...