Word: ballyhoo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winston Churchill's cabinet employed everything but billboard posters to ballyhoo the show in advance. "We are going to have a two days' debate," announced the Prime Minister, "at which very grave and far-reaching matters affecting every branch of our national life . . ." will be discussed. The cabinet met for several days in emergency session; newsmen collected hint after hint that the Conservatives, after nine unhappy months back in power, had at last hammered out a tough and effective economic policy for Great Britain...
...Moscow, the Boss's son warmed up with dialectic ballyhoo for Soviet Air Forces Day. Declaring that the Russians had invented the airplane and the helicopter, Lieut. General Vasily Stalin, 30, zoomed further into the wild blue yonder. Said he: "How miserable and colorless are the air shows in the capitalist countries ... On the very face of it, the bourgeois airman, who is both a bandit and a businessman, has little in common with what we call an air festival. Our airmen carry life and happiness on their wings...
Pequot's directors thought it best not to ballyhoo the collection: if the books were known to be worth $15,000, someone might steal them. Librarian Edna...
...committee's evidence against the Russians was impressive enough not to need artificial bolstering by such ballyhoo tricks as a masked witness...
After weeks of tabloid ballyhoo, curious patrons, including her Texas playboy husband Sheppard King, packed into a Miami Beach nightclub for the American premiere of Samia Gamal's torso-twisting harem dance. In bare feet, a gossamer pink skirt slit down the middle, gold tassels glittering round her bare midriff, Samia slithered through four minutes of her "real oriental art." Then she hurried to her dressing room for a Band-Aid for her big toe, which she had cut on the glass floor. Critical consensus: domestic burlesque is good...