Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three had moved on. Stalin unquestionably had gone back to Mother Russia. Early this week Roosevelt and Churchill turned up in Cairo to make big medicine with President Inönü of Turkey. Present also was the Russian Ambassador to Turkey. After a three-day pow-wow this new foursome issued a terse statement which spoke of "closest unity," "identity of interests" and "firm friendship...
...Folks. There is square-dance music, a female duo singing something like Back in the Saddle Again, a comedy rube act, a "Western instrumental trio," and Cousin Emmy, who best describes the rest of the show: "First I hits it up on my banjo, and I wow 'em. Then I do a number with the guit-tar and play the French harp and sing, all at the same time. Then somebody hollers 'Let's see her yodel,' and I obliges...
Oddly enough the faculty showed surprising steam but in the end they lacked the punch previously demonstrated on the lecture platform. The Girls Volleyball game was a wow, and Col. Conner was in rare form as referee. McManus and McGivier should have gotten prizes for the ducking they took...
...acting) has in rehearsal such Broadway hits as Boy Meets Girl and My Sister Eileen; eventually he may dish up a little Shakespeare. He thinks blank-verse tragedy will be such a novelty for soldiers that they will like it. To back up his hunch, he points to three wow performances of Mac beth at Fort George G. Meade, last year...
...five." "That," said Tunesmith De Paul, "is an idea for a song." By the time the evening was over, Raye and De Paul had written the song out complete-on a paper napkin. Four years later Mister Five By Five, plugged to popularity by Bandleader Freddie Slack was a wow...