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Concerning others whose works have attained what is called the "Wow" (triumphant) class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wows | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...fact one would do well to spend an evening, two dollars and a half, and three quarters of a tumbler full of energy at Cattle Hall watching the annual December destruction of the Histrionic Club. As the old sea dog said when his child was born. "It's a wow...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 12/8/1926 | See Source »

...elements of popularity; without a decent actor in the cast it would go big in Skowhegan, Maine. Indeed, its first performance on any stage was Down East somewhere under the title of Tommy Helps Himself. And they say it was a wow...

Author: By R. K. I., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/1/1926 | See Source »

With such mighty probabilities in his brief case, the Personal Representative entrained for Cleveland, where jubilant Spanish-American War Veterans held a pow-wow to welcome their returning onetime president, where he prepared to put the finishing niceties on his report before going to the President. Said he: "My mission to the Philippines has been one of some delicacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mission of Delicacy | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...moment. The question of the hour is: how do you like your SEX? Some like, it hot, some like it cold. Philosophers scratch their heads over it, Menckens chortle jubilantly about it, newspaper reporters acknowledge their indebtedness to it, and all admit that as an issue Sex is a wow. Mr. Levy has considered it from every traditional angle. He has inserted after-dinner speeches about it staged fight talks about it, and worked up to one grand denunciation of Man by Woman. The woman wins, the man pays, misogynist or not. The playwright has stirred an audience of wistful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/17/1926 | See Source »

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