Word: hullabalooers
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...liberal friend Paul Davis says: "Fundamentally, the hullabaloo over a Communist conspiracy to overthrow our Government is phony" [TIME...
There are two possible means of correction. First, that the public should be artificially stimulated by election campaigns and undergraduate hullabaloo to pay more attention. And second, that the Council should be changed in some way to make it more interesting...
Through all the hullabaloo moves O'Casey himself, an ex-laborer who burns with a hot, proletarian fire. He is poor as a church mouse and still, at 35, such "innocent gaum" (dumbbell) that when he gets a check for one of his first plays he doesn't know how to go about cashing it. But he is sustained by wonderful dreams and illusions in which he sees Ireland peopled by "golden boys" who wander through lanes "canopied by the sly innocence of the woodbine's dangling stems," while adoring lasses stroke "the faded, maybe bloodstained, cloth...
When one testy Congressman shouted, "Why don't you all go home?" a photographer growled back: "Why don't you kiss my foot?" But this persistent, annoying hullabaloo paid off to newspapers and readers. The picture coverage of the Democratic Convention, and the G.O.P. Convention before it, was the most complete in journalistic history...
...Humbug & Hullabaloo. That was a far cry from the "Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome" which Barnum had christened the first Garden, an abandoned depot of the New York Central & Harlem River Steam Railroad at Madison Avenue. The Barnum spectacles and others went so well that in 1889, Garden Owner William H. Vanderbilt got together with Barnum, J. Pierpont Morgan, and other Manhattan tycoons, tore down the old building and built a new $3,000,000 one. On opening night, Edward Strauss played waltzes to the audience of "old dowagers, ancient bucks, fresh brides, dewy buds, young blades and sprigging braves...