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Word: wowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life. You know what I'd ask for when they asked me what I wanted for a reward? You know? A license, just a license. Boy, I'd be a millionaire inside of six months. I'd set up right opposite the University and could I make the dough. Wow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bootlegger Describes Interesting Incidents of a Very Adventurous and Hazardous Trade | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

Young's* international bank is surely a wow. The rest of us plowboys and sons of mechanics were trying to figure out just why a private American individual was mixing in foreign national squabbles in perfect busybody fashion when we tumbled to the fact that Young, as a G. E. tai-kun† is just the gerant* *; of his master, J. Pierrepont Morgan,†† of private gangplank fame. The latter is certain to be found hovering where dollars are thickest-like buzzards over carrion-voilà tout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Docket number 58 is the McKenna Club (Hines, Nelson) versus the Pow-Wow Club (Birge, Reeves). The meeting will be at 19 Farwell Place with H. M. Hamblen 3L as chief justice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

...writing for the newspapers. Single handed he could command a larger sum for a single Sunday appearance than his whole stage full of helpers will attract in a winter. The daily Sartores Resarti of the sport situation support unnumbered experts; a new phase of athletics would be a wow even though as untailored as any Vanities that ever trod a board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETICS FOR EARL | 10/25/1928 | See Source »

...stiff tariff. As in all audiences part can be expected to appreciate the play, and applaud opportunely, while the rest will be good Romans. During the intermission there will be a feature act in mule-driving. This weeks drama promises to be one of the best early season wows, leading up to the final bow-wow. You will know the play in over when the whistle blows and the actors drop their work. Push, do not walk, to the nearest exit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAY'S THE THING | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

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