Word: oomph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radcliffe girls are horrible. They have hairy legs and fat fannies and shouldn't be allowed in the yard." This outspoken comment on the social problems of Brattle Street came from Miss Toni Sorel, 1940 contender for the title of number one Oomph Girl of the Nation, and currently appearing in the new Kaufman and Hart comedy "George Washington Slept Here...
...going to be foreclosed--yes, there is a mortgage--seems slightly less than sincere. The various younger females, the daughter of the Fullers and her friends, were disappointingly undecorative save for one uncommunicative siren, Toni Sorel, whose brief appearances make Ann Sheridan's claim to the title of Oomph Queen patently absurd...
...technicians for a week at a time to help with their 500-foot glimpses of the country at work & play in wartime. They turn out their shorts for $2,000 each (one-tenth the cost of the cheapest Hollywood "quickie"). To sell the glories of factory work they show oomph girls assembling shells in a munitions plant...
...would be time enough to complete its full fighting strength. Reasons for the superior drawing power of the Navy over the Army were better pay, more chance to see the world. A leatherneck recruiting officer put it another way for his outfit. Said he: "It's the . . . old oomph that brings them...
...time the orchestra had finished Brahms's First Symphony, the audience was well away. Only once or twice did the youngsters wobble a little. Critics were inclined to put down a good deal of their oomph to Stokowski's credit. But as .they packed up their fiddles and horns to start their tour of South America, via Baltimore, Washington and Manhattan, even the severest critic had to admit that Leopold Antony Stokowski in two small weeks had whipped together an orchestra that could already claim sixth or seventh place* among the 17 top-flight symphonies...