Word: oomph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days. Interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter in September, 1940, a Miss Toni Sorel, contender for the title of Oomph Girl of the Nation, was quoted in the style considered appropriate for Radcliffe references in this wise: "Here I stood in Harvard Yard, lousy with its ivy and tradition, when the whole picture was ruined--a couple of strange creatures came waddling along. They should only be allowed out at night...
...said it couldn't happen here? Screen testing for the 13 female roles in Veritas Films' first production, "Touch of the Times," began yesterday afternoon on the lawn outside Longfellow Hall. But the accent was on personality, rather than tight-fitting, oomph sweaters and seductive smiles...
Miro, in the U.S. for the first time, had left his farm in Tarragona, Spain, to paint a 30-foot mural for a Cincinnati restaurant (which will also display a teetering "mobile" by Sculptor Alexander Calder). Manhattan exhilarates Miro, and he expects it to give his art more oomph...
Most people can see the oomph, but not much else. Those who think they see more than that rank Miro among the top half-dozen living painters. The New York Sun's Critic Henry McBride-a longtime Miro enthusiast-last week said that Miro now "occupies the position of favorite with those-connoisseurs who insist that they really are connoisseurs." But, he conceded, "those somewhat stuffy people who do not respond to abstract art will fear that the connoisseurs are trying to put something over on them, and they will resent...
...already subtle skill at timing; a gentle but conspicuous talent. ¶ Julie London, "discovered" by Agent Sue Carol running a Hollywood store elevator (which studio publicists claim had also been previously operated by Susan Peters and Jane Russell). Her chief asset : she vigorously communicates just about all the oomph a teen-ager decently could...