Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are just enough weak spots in the program, and inexperienced people in the cast, to prevent Make Mine Manhattan from being a wow. The cast as a whole is not terribly adroit, but it has the conceivably greater virtue of being enormously likable...
...wow he died as wow he lived...
...John Jacob Astor dazzled Manhattan's El Morocco nightclub by exhibiting Wow-wow, her Chihuahua, in a new look. Wow-wow-a male-had a diamond ring on each paw and a sapphire choker around his innocent neck...
...parlor wit who thinks of radio as a parlor instrument ("some homes got them next to toilets"). But he seems hard-pressed to transport the highball-and-cigaret intimacy of his friends' living rooms into the U.S. parlor. His cement-mixer voice strains with eagerness to wow the audience. And while most of his parodies and songs are funny, the jokes which string them together sometimes clank (sample: "As for personal habits ... I ain't got none...
...adjusted to the ingenuous tones of such workers as Alma Kitchell and Martha Deane, take kindly to Flossy's sophisticated accent? Manhattan's WOR has high hopes. The station says it picked her over 1,000 applicants.* Flossy herself has few doubts that she will be a wow. Almost since the day when, at 14, she came out of Allendale, N. J. and into the public eye as a Powers model, her career has been steered by an indulgent, avuncular "board of directors": John Robert Powers, Columnist Walter Winchell, Publicist Steve Hannagan, Cinemogul Robert Goldstein, Singer Morton Downey...