Word: touted
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Shouting, "Tout pour le front lopulaire -everything for the lopular front!" 10,000 exuberant conspirators converged on the square before their favorite Tav-erne du Pantheon, known as the Lopo-drome. Police barred their way. Undaunted, singing their battle hymn, "Lop, lop, lop lop lop, lop lop lop. . . ." (to the tune of Stars & Stripes Forever), they marched into the nearby Salle des Societes Savantes...
...Maitre spoke again: "Tomorrow I shall be called to power." The crowd responded: . "Tonight, tonight!" Lop re plied: "Eh bien, tonight!" The crowd screamed: "Tout de suite, tout de suite!" Then they charged out on the streets...
Amid all this bustle, it remained for a 23-year-old U.S. musicomedy to attract, fortnight ago, the season's glossiest first-night audience and its loudest cheers. Tout Paris-Marlene Dietrich, Mistinguett, Jean Gabin, Lucien Lelong, many another-swarmed to No, No, Nanette, stayed on for 18 curtain calls...
...away from the city's valleyful of smoke & soot, and became, in his own words, "a Southerner who is willing to make it a profession." He mailed his column to about a half dozen other Southern newspapers, who printed it because they liked Graves's ability to tout the South...
Speaking of Philadelphia's presentation, the article states merely: "Philadelphia was touted by Judge L. Stauffer Oliver." The word "tout" has definitely a cheap and unpleasant significance. If I correctly understand the common meaning of that word, there was no touting by any member of the Philadelphia delegation...