Word: baloneyed
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...announcer at NBC, back in 1930, he competed with ten other announcers for a program sponsored by Gobel's bologna. The other ten sounded very highbrow, but Ben got the job. "That's the man," the sponsor cried, "that's what I sell-baloney...
Last week, 263 sponsors and some 27,000 commercials later, Ben Grauer had come a long way for a baloney salesman. On NBC's big new documentary series, Living-1948 (Sun., 4:35 p.m., NBC), he was the narrator and star. In his nine other regular radio and television jobs, he ran the gamut between straight man and U.N. analyst. The New York Herald Tribune's John Crosby has said with some amazement that Grauer "does everything but sweep out the studio...
...pleasure to learn that TIME'S book reviewer wasn't taken in by Robert S. Allen's phony-baloney story of how Patton and his Third Army...
Proper Names. In Haverhill, Mass., William Peach was married to Annie Cann. In New Orleans, cops stopped an unlicensed hotdog business operated by Messrs. Irving Veal & Louis Baloney...
...permit me to offer you my latest sonnet. It is entitled 'The Madman.' I have dedicated it to you." To most accusations of collaboration he replied: "Ce n'est que de la crême fouettée" ("It's nothing but whipped cream," i.e., baloney). Had he not belonged to Déat's group? Snapped Bourin: "Zero for the question. I was always against Déat. But I love uniforms. I had only been a lieutenant and Déat offered to make me a major. He also appointed me inspector general...