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  • But there don't seem ter be no hole, an 'after unc' looks around, an 'can't find nothin', he calls Ballyhoo off, an 'they start through ther woods ag'in.

    Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur Edward C. Taylor

  • She appeared in two Broadway revues, Ballyhoo of 1930, starring WC Fields, and Strike Me Pink 1933 with Jimmy Durante, before being offered a Paramount studio contract.

    Grace Bradley obituary Ronald Bergan 2010

  • The most memorable thing about William Castle's 13 GHOSTS 1960, which the "King of Ballyhoo" dreamed up while driving through France with his wife and passing an abandoned house, is the gimmick of "Illusion-O," which allowed moviegoers to see the eponymous haints that bedevil an impoverished paleontologist and his nuclear family after they inherit the sprawling ancestral mansion.

    "They go with the house." Arbogast 2009

  • Ballyhoo: Personally, I hope they tone down Captain America's costume keep the basic design but do away with that A on his forehead and those wings on his headmask.

    Jeremy Renner Clears Up Those Hawkeye & Avengers Rumors « FirstShowing.net 2009

  • After a short intermission, the second semi-final round will pit the charming Irina Reyn (a substitute for the previously announced Joshua Mandelbaum, who presumably injured himself at practice), representing Ballyhoo Stories, against the lovely Tao Lin, representing Opium Magazine.

    Literary Death Match: Wednesday Night in Washington Square Park 2007

  • After a short intermission, the second semi-final round will pit the charming Irina Reyn (a substitute for the previously announced Joshua Mandelbaum, who presumably injured himself at practice), representing Ballyhoo Stories, against the lovely Tao Lin, representing Opium Magazine.

    July 2007 2007

  • The theme stalks each song's subject and protagonist, such as Forbert when he becomes an enlightened attendee at a ridiculous arena concert where the rock star in "The Beast Of Ballyhoo (Rock Show)" 's tattoos contradict his gold satin jacket, and who has "a ring on ev'ry finger" yet his green eyes glow.

    Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Reviews: Chuck Berry His Complete Chess Recordings 1960 - 1966 / Steve Forbert The Place And The Time / A.J. Croce Cage Of Muses 2009

  • He says that his paper says she wrote "What Happened to Baby Yaga" for Ballyhoo Stories but he knows that is a typo and her title is actually "What Happened to Baba Yaga."

    Literary Death Match: Wednesday Night in Washington Square Park 2007

  • Visit Weird Hollow for a chance to win a rare piece of Horror Ballyhoo memorabilia - a "Faint Check" for Revenge of the Creature!

    31Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 2 : Early Afternoon Prof. Ravensdeath 2008

  • There was a lot of Ballyhoo, if you will, four to five years ago on this.

    CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2008 2008

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