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Word: wowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dishonored Lady (Stromberg; United Artists) features Hedy Lamarr, John Loder (Miss Lamarr's real-life husband) and Dennis O'Keefe in a highfalutin piece of problem-nonsense designed to wow women matinee-goers. Students of movie (and audience) morals may be interested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Jun. 9, 1947 | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

Murmurs of protest increased hourly as the distillery repeated the renowned six-da cheer, but substituted "crofts" for the crucial "Fight!" Driven desperate by repetition of the blurb, one brass artist began a substitute commercial featuring the theme; "bow wow wow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slogan War Looms as Band Members Attack Hucksters | 3/1/1947 | See Source »

Aside from four (4) regrettably rousing renditions of "Bulldog, Bulldog, Bow-Wow-Wow, E-Li Yale," "Roughly Speaking" is a tasteful bit of expert light comedy. It may have a Boolah Boolah backdrop for nearly one complete real, but in the hands of Rosalind Russell and Director Mike Curtiz it also has gay nonchalance and a touch of Americana in the reminiscent style of "Our Hearts Were Young...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 5/1/1945 | See Source »

Chicago, which saw some 50 performances of Frankie and Johnnie as a WPA Federal Theater project, had pronounced it a "wow" and as "native as a ballgame." Eastern balletomanes, seeing it for the first time last week, plunged into heated controversy about the strutting, nonclassical acrobatics and gun-toting melodrama. Critics couldn't agree on whether it was "good, lusty folklore" or merely a "dirty show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: American Ballet | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

When first returns from Missouri indicated that the state might go Republican, Truman exclaimed: "Wow! I think that calls for a concert." He slid behind the chrysanthemum-bedecked piano, tinkled out Paderewski's Minuet, followed it with gay waltzes. At 9:30 p.m. Vice President Wallace, whose doggedly devoted campaigning had brought him both sneers ("the Johnny Appleseed of 1944"), and cheers (louder at Madison Square Garden than those for Truman), became the first to "concede" a Democratic victory. But Harry Truman kept his thin mouth closed. When Tom Dewey conceded defeat at 2:15 a.m. (C.W.T.), Truman hailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Election: The Vice-Presidency | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

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