Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fantastic Art, Dada & Surrealism (December 1936), a wow...
More startling was a recent radio capture. Four desperadoes in jail in Omaha slugged their guards and got away. Soon law & order and law's new kibitzer, radio, were hot in pursuit. First word of the escaped convicts came by telephone to radio station WOW, reporting them heading toward Gretna, 23 miles southwest of Omaha. Soon police, newsmen and radio newscasters with mobile transmitters were on the trail, among them WOW's dapper News Editor Foster...
...last year he put on his thinking pants, spotted this Whitman line: Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed the passage with you? Last week he published Disputed Passage (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50). As a personality pamphlet, it is a wow. As a novel, it is nothing much-no better nor worse than other Douglas books. Professor Tubby Forrester is so sour on life that it takes 432 pages for John Wesley Beaven, one of the nicest, cleanest, bravest medical students ever to flay a corpse, to convince the Professor that doctors must...
...WOW!" approved New York's tabloid Daily News, as well it might. Mrs. Watriss' precautions frustrated the photographers of every paper in town except one. The irrepressible Daily News came out with the whole business- Brenda greeting Elsa Maxwell, Brenda & mother greeting billowy Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, even Brenda being kissed by an unknown youth-all over the front page and across a centre spread...
...town." The sketch, bordering an article on cafe society, included several simulated newspaper pages. A tiny sheet headed Daily Mirror, which carries Mr. Winchell's column, was labeled Broadway Filth. In another small space Artist Beaton had written: "Cholly Asks Why? . . . Is Mrs. Selznik such a social wow. . . . Why is Mrs. Goldwyn such a wow. . . . Why is Mrs. Louis B. Mayer...