Word: ballyhoo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blatant ballyhoo for the trial, next month, at Dayton, Tenn., of Teacher John Thomas Scopes, indicted by a grand jury under Tennessee's anti-evolution law (TIME, May 18), continued to occupy an exaggerated amount of space in the newspapers. Actual developments were...
...SHOW-OFF-The ballyhoo man for himself takes the stand and talks incessantly through a highly entertaining evening...
...settings and costumes there had been much ballyhoo. They were unfailingly elaborate, and almost as unfailingly in bad taste. A Fokine Ballet clogged the action...
Little Old New York. With a pounding of drums and shrill cries of the ballyhoo herald sounding more loudly than ever when motion picture was heralded before, this latest product from the laboratories of William Randolph Hearst arrived in New York. A theatre was purchased and redecorated at an expense of hundreds of thousands. A huge list of names was amassed for the opening night?social celebrities, famous figures of the stage, sporting men and women, beauties, politicians. Victor Herbert conducted the orchestra...
Expert critics agree that Gibbons, who is little more than a middleweight, will have " no chance." Others, equally expert, insist that the whole announcement is merely a bit of ballyhoo and that Tex Rickard will step in at the critical moment and transfer the fight to Boyle's Thirty Acres...