Word: ballyhoo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...certain nostalgia that is alien to the Swing generation but sacred to its patents. All the touches, from "oh you kid," through the Charleston and Irving Berlin's "Always," down to the high-school debate over whether the Marines should be withdrawn from Nicaragua-recreate the hoteha and ballyhoo of the years just preceding the depression. Especially typical is the portrayal of the high-school football hero, whose raccoon coat, honor-badge of the period, appears as standard equipment whenever the young buck comes in the screen, be it to hootchi-koo, crank up his roadster, or neck...
...Ballyhoo for the Harvard Dramatic Club production, "Adam the Greater," reached national proportions this week-end as the University thespians prepared to open tonight for a five-day run in Sanders Theatre...
What intelligent or legitimate connection can there be between Lena Horne's songs or Gypsy Rose Lee's navel and the election campaigns of responsible officials and progressive legislators? Jo Davidson's and Hannah Dorner's substitution of theatrical ballyhoo for concrete, vital political issues is a stupid and sordid insult to the voters of this nation. The work of other such ICCASPeople as Daily Worker Writer Howard Fast readily attests to Communist Front activity and possible Moscow affiliations...
...defeat in the first head-on collision with the A.F.L. seemed symptomatic of its showing elsewhere in the South. Against A.F.L. claims of 100,000 new members and 300 new local charters since May; the high-powered ballyhoo of the C.I.O.'s "Operation Dixie" had won bargaining rights for only 12,000 new recruits. Even if it won all 171 of the NLRB elections it had pending it would add only 37,000 more. Biggest C.I.O. gains were being made among the South's 639,000 unorganized woodworkers: in Mississippi (including the big Masonite plant at Laurel...
Shrewd, Harvard-accented Publisher Robert B. Choate, 48, had dreamed up a celebration that was as inexpensive as it was spectacular. To the Charles River Basin the Herald's advance ballyhoo brought a crowd optimistically estimated by the Herald to be 500,000 and by anybody's count, a lot of people. For five hours they lined both sides of the river, watched as the Army, Navy and Coast Guard put on a stunt series, heard the Port of Boston band (also working gratis) make music. The windup was a fireworks display, which the Herald bought at half...