Word: oomph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combination fast ball and curve have taken the play from his dazzling mound-mates Dizzy Trout and Hal Newhouser, who almost won last year's pennant for Detroit. Last week, Connie Mack said that Detroit was the American League team to beat-mainly because of the added oomph which Al has given the Tigers' pitching staff...
...registered a medium-sized tremor. When she topped that with a striking performance of the far more exacting role of Violetta in Traviata, it began to sprout melodious expletives. The coloratura of her Sempre libera was passionate, accurate, brilliant. She was undoubtedly a rarity: a lyric soprano with dramatic oomph and coloratura glitter, the best Violetta heard in Manhattan since the late, great Claudia Muzio...
...poor nutrition, anemia, fatigue, etc. Any one of these factors can start a vicious circle by lowering muscle tone throughout the body, thus impairing the return of blood to the heart. With less blood to pump, the muscles of the left side of the heart lose some of their oomph and sour notes result. The poor heart action adds to that tired feeling, contributes to the slow return of blood...
Bandmaster Rolfe has endeared himself to Long Beach's music lovers by adding a judicious dash of polyrhythmic oomph to the band's traditional rhythmic oompah. A man of unblushing temperament, who conducts with his back to the band, he frankly describes his abilities as "brilliant." "I have always been one of those spectacular musicians," says he. Band- master Rolfe soothes his audiences with such items as Overture to the Viking, scenes from Babes in Toyland, selections from Porgy and Bess. His theory: "Give 'em what they want...
Spang in the middle of the room is a massive dressing table, its mirror garlanded with crystal lights. Glunk in one corner squats a pure-white grand piano. Oomph on the piano lid perches the famed marble statuette of Mae, like Venus, proud and unattired. From every wall, in every size & shape (and, by tradition, from the ceiling above the bed), mirrors stare at each other. All the upholstery is white-satin brocade, slowly aging, soon to be replaced (by white-satin brocade). There is a husky odor of high-priced perfumes...