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...public defiance of the Catholic people of Syracuse." Sally Rand's act was cancelled. In Chicago it was announced she would again appear at the World's Fair, this year without fans. Said Impresario Joseph Imbrugio: "It is quite artistic. In fact it's a wow...
...substituting them for the suit of one of the passengers. On we go further west, and it is jealous Legs who first discovers that his rival is the convict. On we go still further west and the smell of the Rockies becomes more predominant. With a wow of an ending, numerous snow bound school children are rescued by the fugitive from justice, pretty Letty gets rid of her gangster admirer who admits defeat with a broad smile, and Porter gets a pardon...
...late Sime Silverman, founder-publisher of Variety, helped popularize such technical theatre talk as "wow," "panic," and "flop" but it never got far from Broadway. H. L. Mencken coined expressions like "Bible Belt," "booboisie," "Yahwah," which became part of the language of his imitative admirers but not slang. Cartoonist T. A. Dorgan ("Tad") put a little dog in his pictures who barked "balogna"; the term was not, like some of Tad's, his own. "Blessed event," "phttf and "middle-aisle" by Winchell are too conscious to be slang; "whoopee," old when he first used it, is already obsolete. "Bugs...
...late great Baseballer Christy Mathewson ("yellow streak"). In the long list from "aasvogel" to "zooming" some U. S. examples: "Speak-easy" (1889): "Yup. U.S. Variant of yep, yes" (1906); "Razz [short for Razzberry]. Disapproval expressed by hissing or booing directed against an actor or other person" (1926); "Wow. A 'great success'" (1927); "Zipper" (1925); "Vamp...
This is a hearing on a demurrer reserved for the opinion of the full bench of the Supreme Court of the Pow Wow on an agreed statement of facts...