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...Ohhh, my back," groaned Walter Winchell, 61, as he soft-shoed through a cluster of show girls rehearsing in Las Vegas, Nev. "Feel this corset," said the grand old man of keyhole journalism. "Go ahead, feel it. I've got a torn muscle near the sacroiliac. How the hell am I gonna get over to that side of the stage?" Last week Gossipist Winchell, an oldtime hoofer before he cast himself in the role of a newspaperman, painfully returned for $35,000 a week to his first love-himself on a stage-and it was rough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Can WW Save Vaudeville? | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

With the lines in English a few of the usually "dramatic" Italian phrases sound a bit peculiar. For example, the young maid has finished a long sorrowful song about her mistreatment by the bawdy Don, and her gallant suitor warbles "Ohhh, a piteee." These are the exceptions however and this fine presentation, like Cosi, is highly enjoyable...

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin and Cliff F. Thompson, S | Title: Mozart in Boston | 2/1/1956 | See Source »

Spring never promises anything to anybody. As each waif toddles into his throne room--and about 1,000 do so every day--he whines, "Ohhh, here's an old friend of Santa's!" He asks the tot what he wants for Christmas and, after listening attentively to the list, sends him off with a pat on the head and a cheery exhortation to "Be Good!" I felt this was rather ungenerous, and usually prefer to dismiss a child with, "All right! Santa won't forget you at Christmas!" or some such ambiguous statement...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...Ohhh? I was looking for you when the train reached the New Haven station...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 11/7/1950 | See Source »

While a few M. P.s groaned "ohhh," there was no really important dissent. Every M. P. and most of his constituents knew that the reasons why Britons were going to have to dig down deeper into their pockets this year than last were to be found in Adolf Hitler's moves on the Continent. Best expression of the British man-in-the-street's reaction to the Hitler budget appeared on a newspaper handbill: "We Can Take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: We Can Take It | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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