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Such a movie, thought Preacher Jardine, required a new type of heroine to play the good girl - a Miss Spiritual America. Said he: "First there was the It Girl, then the Glamor Girl, then the Oomph Girl, and now the Spiritual Girl." Preacher Jardine set out to find the spiritual girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Indecency | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Stepping into his office for the first time since March 5, President Conant gave an account yesterday of his annual western barnstorming tour which was a long sequence of speeches, confabs with educational bigwigs, honorary degrees, and interviews with "Oomph Girl" Ann Sheridan's publicity agents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charter Day Talk At U. of C. Crowns Conant's Journey | 4/9/1940 | See Source »

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 (Minneapolis Symphony, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia: 10 sides). In his first album with the Minneapolitans, Conductor Mitropoulos (TIME, April 24) proves himself tops, in batonistic oomph, gives this classic one of its finest recordings to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: April Records | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

Five undergraduates with a taste for and taste in feminine pulchritude will have a chance to get their fill of that commodity by serving as judges in a beauty contest to pick "Miss Cinderella" from the ranks of a dozen local oomph girls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE AESTHETIC MEN WANTED TO JUDGE 'MISS CINDERELLA' | 3/28/1940 | See Source »

When and if La Sheridan came to Cambridge, the Warner crew hoped to effect a public reconciliation between Ann and the Poon by having Lampoon editors and the oomph girl pose for the press in intimate and forgiving attitudes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Authorities Balk at Oomph Girl Premiere at U. T. | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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