Word: oomph
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...Paris Fair of 1925, and the Chicago Century of Progress, the new Rose-colored spectacle has much more varied costumes, provides snatches of old tunes, glimpses of past gaiety. By pairing up Waterlulu Eleanor Holm with handsome Swimmer Buster Crabbe, instead of Aqua-caveman Johnny Weissmuller, Rose added oomph to their big aquatic waltz. The water scenes gain from the use of fountains and a "curtain" of shimmering spray...
...Latin America, Pat O'Brien is plagued by all the annoyances incidental to the culture and timely transport of bananas. He also wrestles grimly with the problems of keeping his tougher assistant (James Cagney) down on the fruit farm, and the disturbing presence in the tropics of Oomph Girl Ann Sheridan (singer and cardsharp). Utilizing Mr. Cagney's irresistible attraction for women, Overseer...
...Brien solves both problems at a stroke by mating the Oomph Boy and the Oomph Girl...
This takes some time and Helen Vinson, whose oomph is less curvilinear and more serpentine than Ann Sheridan's, nearly spoils the happy synthesis. She also is so irresistibly attracted to Cinemactor Cagney that when her overseer husband (Jerome Cowan) remarks that Cagney looks half dead after being shot up in the jungle, Miss Vinson snaps unkindly: "That still leaves him 50% up on you." But Miss Vinson is too much the intellectual type. Ann Sheridan soon demonstrates that the way to Mr. Cagney's heart is to heave a plate of sandwiches at him so that...
Some ten thousand men of Harvard--not to mention nearly half of Cambridge's female population--jammed Sever Quadrangle last evening to hear Conductor Woodworth lead his Glee Club through a program which packed plenty of musical oomph. "Casey Jones" rode the rails again, while Handel's "Samson" buffeted the pillars of Widener. Judging by its tumultuous applause, academic Cambridge clearly appreciated the first of these free, outdoor concerts...